The Freedmen's Bureau was established by the United States government during Reconstruction to help former slaves and poor whites in the South by providing food, housing, education, and medical care. The terms "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers" were used derogatorily to describe white individuals who supported the rights of freedmen and were involved in Reconstruction efforts. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a white supremacist group that opposed the rights of African Americans and used violence and intimidation to maintain white supremacy in the South. Abolitionists were individuals who worked to end slavery in the United States.
