The first Battle of Bull Run is most significant because
a. it revealed how short the war would be.
b. it made the north feel that the war was essentially over and they had won.
c. more Confederates died than Union soldiers.
d. it made Grant stand out to Lincoln.
e. it was a wake-up call to the north that this war would be long and drawn out.
e
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A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was
a. hostility to the growing practice of interracial sexual relations and marriage. b. anger at the corruption in Reconstruction legislatures. c. the southern desire to instigate guerrilla warfare against the occupying U.S. Army. d. political disenfranchisement experienced by poor whites in the South. e. white resistance in the South to constitutional and federal legislative attempts to empower blacks politically and challenge white supremacy.
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
a. an open political organization seeking to revive the Confederacy. b. the military arm of the southern Democratic party. c. a civic reform and service organization. d. a movement for openly protesting northern oppression. e. a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means.