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.

PART B: Which phrase from paragraph 7 best supports the answer to Part A?

A)“The Klan targeted Republican leaders and blacks trying to exercise their new rights.”

B)“The Klan would beat, lynch, or massacre their enemies.”

C)“Targets of the attacks looked to the federal government for protection.”

D)“Entire militias formed in the South dedicated to fighting Republican intervention”