The Ku Klux Klan was established after the Civil War to
A) protect the rights of small farmers from Northern land speculators.
B) terrorize blacks into submissive behavior and intimidate black voters.
C) pressure the North to end the military occupation of the South.
D) frighten whites into electing former slaves to public office.
E) All of these choices
B
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The Industrial Revolution came first to:
A. the Netherlands. B. Germany. C. Spain. D. France. E. Britain.
In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except
A) Congress had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in the South. B) Social and political equality between blacks and whites was not desirable. C) The Dred Scott decision rendered popular sovereignty "as thin as soup boiled from the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." D) This nation cannot exist permanently half slave and half free. E) The best way to preserve the Union was to ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South.
The Reform Bill of 1832 in Britain primarily benefited the
A) landed aristocracy. B) peasants. C) working class. D) clergy. E) upper middle-class.
What ultimately resulted from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A) It shattered sectional harmony. B) It revived support for an expansionist foreign policy. C) It strengthened the political power of the Whig Party. D) It had little effect on sectional tensions. E) It never got the congressional support it needed for passage.