Ku Klux Klan and Post Civil War Violence Ku Klux Klan Forms in Tennessee Also generic organizations formed such as the Knights of the White Camilla Who did the Klan intimidate Freedmen Republicans Klan in Florida Jackson County War The Jackson County War was one of the most violent uprisings in the Reconstruction era south Murders political assassinations assaults and bitter reprisals were the tactics of the day and over a period of several years the Northwest Florida County literally became the scene of a bloodbath as bad as any in Missouri and Kansas during the years before the war The uprising targeted both white leaders and their supporters as well as black freedmen and the exact number of deaths that took place may never be known Some estimates have ranged as high as 168 over a four year period The Klan and the Election of 1868 Camilla Georgia Riot Klan intimidation Reasons why the Klan declined Democrats turned to other tactics and began taking over state governments Republican and Freedmen power declined Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 President Grant 1871 Deep South particularly South Carolina also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871 Force Act of 1871 Ku Klux Force Act Ku Klux Klan Act Third Enforcement Act or Third Ku Klux Klan Act The act empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan KKK and other white supremacy organizations during the Reconstruction Era The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress during the Reconstruction Era and signed into law by President Ulysses S Grant on April 20 1871 The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans This is significant because after the act s passage the president had the power for the first time to both suppress state disorders on his own initiative and to suspend the right of habeas corpus Grant did not hesitate to use this authority on numerous occasions during his presidency and as a result the first era KKK was completely dismantled and did not resurface in any meaningful way until the first part of the 20th century Ulysses S Grant s 1 st and 2 nd Administrations Election of 1868 Ulysses S Grant R vs Horatio Seymour D After numerous ballots the Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour to take on the Republican candidate Civil War General Ulysses S Grant Grant was one of the most popular men in the North due to his efforts in concluding the Civil War successfully for the Union Although Seymour was buried in the Electoral College he gave Grant a good race for the popular vote especially considering the temporary advantages that Grant could draw upon being a Radical In addition to his appeal in the North Grant benefited from votes among the newly enfranchised freedmen in the South while the temporary political disenfranchisement of many Southern whites also helped Republican margins there It was also the first election in which African Americans could vote in accordance with the First Reconstruction Act in every Northern or Reconstructed state Grant won office thanks to the black vote which numbered above 700 000 Grant s Cabinet decisions Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871 Force Act of 1871 Ku Klux Force Act Ku Klux Klan Act Third Enforcement Act or Third Ku Klux Klan Act The act empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan KKK and other white supremacy organizations during the Reconstruction Era The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress during the Reconstruction Era and signed into law by President Ulysses S Grant on April 20 1871 The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans Grant s Foreign Policy o CSS Alabama Claims In 872 were a series of claims for damages by the U S government against the government of the United Kingdom for the assistance given to the Confederate cause during the American Civil War After international arbitration endorsed the American position in 1872 Britain settled the matter by paying the United States 15 5 million for damages done by several warships built in Britain and sold to the Confederacy thus ending the dispute and ensuring friendly relations This is significant because it led to the Treaty of Washington Britain and the United States became perpetual allies after the treaty with Britain having expressed regret over the Alabama damages o Santo Domingo Was an attempted treaty during later Reconstruction initiated by President Ulysses S Grant in 1869 to annex Santo Domingo as the Dominican Republic was then commonly known as a U S territory with the promise of eventual statehood President Grant believed that that the annexed territory on the island of Hispaniola would serve as a safe haven for African Americans from the Southern United States who were suffering violent persecution by the Ku Klux Klan Grant also believed that the acquisition of Santo Domingo would help bring about the end of slavery in those parts of the Americas that still practiced it such as Brazil A further motive was Dominican agricultural and mineral resources would benefit the U S economy A U S naval port in the Dominican Republic would also serve as protection for a projected canal across the Isthmus of Darien The Dominican Republic annexation treaty ultimately failed due to political turmoil and misunderstanding between Grant and Congress In addition the defeat of the treaty in the Senate ultimately contributed to the division of the Republican party into two opposing factions during the election of 1872 the Radical Republicans composed of Grant and his loyalists and the Liberal Republicans composed of Schurz Sumner Horace Greeley as presidential candidate and other opponents of Grant This also is significant because it solidified the hatred between Charles Sumner and Ulysses S Grant Election of 1872 Ulysses S Grant vs Horace Greeley The election was the first in which every competing state used a popular vote to determine its electors Also it is so far the only election in which a presidential candidate died during the electoral process Because Greeley died only a month after the election results the votes that were casted in his states were not able to be counted Grant s Scandals o Credit