(MC)Which best explains why the Ku Klux Klan was formed?
to campaign against Democratic candidates in the South
to stop emancipated slaves from exercising their new rights
to protest Union occupation of the former Confederate states
to prevent carpetbaggers from permanently settling in the South
1 answer
The best explanation for why the Ku Klux Klan was formed is:
to stop emancipated slaves from exercising their new rights.
The Klan was established in the post-Civil War South primarily to intimidate Black people and to undermine their newly acquired rights and freedoms.
