According to the image, life for freedmen during Reconstruction <u>was much worse than it was under slavery. </u>The image actually says - "worse than slavery." Although they were legally no longer slaves, the South still disagreed with this decision and consequently, the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) came to be.<u> </u>
I would say option 2 because people could have different opinions on weather it was effective or not, which would allow you to make it into an argumentative essay.