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Following the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the region experienced significant economic hardship and became a focal point of racial tension during the Reconstruction era, when emancipated enslaved people and Free Blacks asserted their rights, and, protected by the Federal government and Union Army, played significant roles in state governments. This incited the creation and growth of the Ku Klux Klan

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