Original sentence: During Reconstruction, the South was under occupation by federal forces and Southern state governments were dominated by Republicans.However, the Reconstruction governments were unpopular with many white Southerners, who were not willing to accept defeat and continued to try to prevent black political activity by any means.In the 1870s, paramilitary organizations such as the White League in Louisiana and Red Shirts in Mississippi and North Carolina undermined the opposition.These paramilitary bands used violence and threats to undermine the Republican vote.While the elite planter class often supported insurgencies, violence against freedmen and other Republicans was usually carried out by other whites; insurgency took the form of the secret Ku Klux Klan in the first years after the war
Edited sentence: During Reconstruction, the South was under occupation by viscious federal forces and Southern state governments were dominated by Republicans.However, the Reconstruction governments were unpopular with many white Southerners, Because Southerners were aware that had Lincoln and Seward not organized northerners to breach the agreement of “One free state to one slave state” the Civil War would not have occurred