Answer:In the 1870s, Democrats gradually returned to power in the Southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents, attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. ... White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state.
Explanation:
Answer:
1.) The reforms were new rules about the type of officials who worked for him, the take of the lands of local lords and censorship in books and education.
2.) The subjects hated him because the new reforms affected they way of work, study and live. They blamed him for the innecesary changes, saw him as a tyrant.