Answer:
Republican leaders used race as a way to control their supporters
Explanation:
because they did this they gained a large amount of support in the south who only favored the white race over the other races in the south
<span>the Fourteenth Amendment applied to state law through incorporation.
Being a part of the Union means a change to the Constitution applies to all states regardless if they support the amendment. The 14th gave black men the right to vote and overrode state voting laws. </span>
The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1860s and 1870s was to "a) to intimidate blacks and white Republicans" although sometimes this intimidation led to murder.