KKK - Resistance to Reconstruction

The Ku Klux Klan was started by a group of former ________ as a social club, but quickly grew into a terrorist group.

• Europeans

• Union officers

• Confederate soldiers

• African Americans

The goal of the KKK was to use violence and intimidation to keep African-Americans from exercising their rights under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment and therefore, allow the southern whites

• the right to vote

• to achieve some economic independence

• the ability to continue to use African American labor

• to regain control of the state and local governments

A major way the KKK intimidated African-Americans and supporters of reconstruction was by _______.

• burning homes and churches

• sending hate mail

• public lynchings

• public debates

The Election of 1876 was full of voter fraud that three states’ electoral votes could not be counted, so there was no clear-cut winner. The election was decided

• by a convention of state governors

• by the House of Representatives

• by the outgoing administration

• by the Supreme Court

In the Compromise of 1877, in exchange for accepting the Republican candidate as President, Democrats insisted upon

• the end of Reconstruction and the removal of the remaining troops from the South

• allowing former Confederate officers and officials to serve in Congress

• the return of all confiscated lands to the original landowners

• Southern war debts to be forgiven

What did the KKK and Southern states use against African Americans to keep them inferior? (select all that apply)

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow laws

• intimidation

• free land

Which was NOT used to keep African Americans from voting?

• sharecropping

• literacy tests

• poll taxes

• grandfather clause