Video: Violence and Backlash

Watch the video, then respond to the questions about it.

The video provides an overview of two different periods of violence during the Reconstruction era, and it helps students distinguish between the vigilante violence of the Ku Klux Klan—which was largely ended by federal law enforcement—and the paramilitary violence that erupted later in the 1870s and played a key role in ending the period of Radical Reconstruction.

To watch the video, follow this link.