Exercises on the Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Kux Klan is known to be a terrorist organization that persecutes and commits acts of violence against black people. This organization emerged in what context in the history of the United States?

a) American Civil War

b) Reconstruction

c) American Revolution

d) Great Depression

e) McCarthyism

The Ku Klux Klan has costumes and symbols that allow us to easily identify you. So, which of the following alternatives has one of the symbols that marked the Klan?

a) Raven

b) Celtic Cross

c) Swastika

d) Burning Cross

e) Thunder

The first phase of the Klan spanned from 1866 to 1871, and the decline of that organization from 1871 onwards was directly related to:

a) 13th Constitutional Amendment.

b) Klan Act.

c) Black Codes.

d) Bill of Rights.

e) Prohibition.

How did the historical context after the American Civil War influence the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan?

a) White southerners were dissatisfied with the abolition of slave labor and the laws that debated expanding black civil rights.

b) The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by an ex-slave infuriated southern slaveholders.

c) The economic crisis in the south motivated southerners to attack blacks to steal the riches they had acquired during the war.

d) It was a direct reaction to an order by northern congressmen to arrest Robert E. Lee, general of the Confederate troops.

e) The emergence of Black Codes, laws proposed by northerners that forced former slave owners to compensate them.

LETTER B

The Ku Klux Klan emerged in Tennessee, in the southern state of the United States, in 1866, during the phase known as Reconstruction. This phase refers to the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reintegrated into the Union and when changes regarding the end of slave labor began to be implemented.

LETER D

The burning cross became part of the Ku Klux Klan from its second phase, which began in 1915 and ended in the mid-1940s.

LETER B

The weakening of the Klan in its first phase of action was related to a law enacted by the US government in 1871. This law was passed by President Ulysses Grant and expanded the mechanisms of the US government to fight supremacist organizations.

LETER A

The Klan started out as a secret organization so its members could have fun. Because of the context of the South of the United States, the organization began to persecute blacks and those who defended the expansion of their rights. Many Southern Americans were dissatisfied with the abolition of slave labor and the laws that expanded civil rights for blacks at the time. The use of violence was the way found to intimidate and silence all those who defended the rights of black people in the South of the United States.