Did you know that the KKK group order began with 6,000 members, with the largest chapter being in New York City? The purpose of the Reconstruction was to reconnect the eleven states that had left the Union and welcome the millions of Freed Slaves.The South ended Reconstruction because of the KKK and Rutherford B. Hayes because he removed Federal Soldiers.The South ended Reconstruction, The South killed Reconstruction by the government and the KKK. I think the South ended Reconstruction. Any member of Congress who, especially from the South, does not support, advocate, and urge immediate active and thorough measures to put an end to these outrages are cowards.I think this because the African Americans were treated wrong and voted for the Republicans.