Which statement BEST describes how the rise of the Ku Klux Klan is related to the beginning of Congressional Reconstruction? A The Ku Klux Klan arose as a response to the move away from Presidential Reconstruction. B The beginning of Congressional Reconstruction led to an increase in power for the Ku Klux Klan. C The rise of the Ku Klux Klan led to widespread Northern support for Radical Republicans in the elections of 1866. D The Ku Klux Klan gained power and influence after Southern states lost their statehood under Congressional Reconstruction.

D. The Ku Klux Klan gained power and influence after Southern states lost their statehood under Congressional Reconstruction.

Explanation:

The Ku Klux Klan emerged and empowered itself from the disempowerment of southern states during the reconstruction of the south. As these states were totally at the mercy of the Republicans, the Klan established itself as a resistance group, which would do justice with its own hands and promote the destruction of what the Northern Republicans had established, such as the freedom of blacks and the dominance of northerners in the southern territory.

the civil war was a fulfillment and completion of the constitution, not a revolution against it. changes in culture and society surely affected political life. lincoln hoped to bring the north and south together after the war by healing the nationand making people lose their resentment.

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