Question

Who were the 'KKK' and what were there intentions?
(Teacher didn't tell me)

Answer 1

The KKK stood for Ku Klux Klan. They wanted to keep blacks from being free and to keep slavery in the south.

Answer 2

(KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks