The KKK's goal included the <em>political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintainance of absolute with supremacy</em> in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65).
They succeeded in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction Era.
With the passage of the Military Reconstruction Acts in March 1867 , and the prospect of freedmen voting in the South, the Klan became a political organization.
Answer: In 1835, Garrison wrote in his first paper that his goal was to use words to move hearts and minds (he called it "moral suasion") to make people believe slavery was wrong. He did not believe in politics or in violence in any form.
After the Civil War and reconstruction the New South became more diversified. It was mainly agricultural before but the new embraced the industrial part as well.
