Which Statement Is True About the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) ?

• A) The KKK was primarily concerned with stopping Asian immigration to the South.
• B) Founded in 1866 in Tennessee, the KKK was a terrorist organization that attacked black and white Republicans during Reconstruction.
• C) Most southern planters, merchants, and Democratic politicians who considered themselves "respectable citizens" publicly condemned the Klan.
• D) President Grant's dispatching of federal marshals and troops in 1871 failed to have any effect on Klan violence.
• E) The KKK functioned as the military arm of the Republican Party in the South.