The right answer is the policies of the Republican Party.
Southern resistance to “Radical rule” or the policies of the Republican Party, increased and turned violent. Many white southerners blamed their poverty on freed slaves and Yankees. White mobs attacked blacks in 1866 in Memphis and New Orleans. That year, the Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club; its members soon began to intimidate freedmen and white Republicans. Despite government action, violence continued and even escalated in the South.
