2.
PART A: Which statement best describes the relationship between the Ku Klux Klan and
Reconstruction? [RI.3]
A The Klan emerged to fight for stronger protection of whites against retaliating
former slaves.
B. The Klan formed after Reconstruction ended in order to provide structure to
disorderly states.
C. The Klan formed to fight against Reconstruction policies that gave citizenship
and rights to freed blacks.
D. The Klan formed to create terror in the Reconstruction Era South as punishment
to the ruling Southern Democrats.