Question

Read the passages concerning the Freedmen's Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan.

Officers and Agents of this Bureau will take care . . . [to] inform all Freedmen entitled to be registered, of the necessity for, and the time and place of registration, and of the time and place of voting. They will also be instructed that, as they will not be allowed to suffer from the honest exercise of the right of suffrage, they should disregard all threats or undue influence tending to prevent or restrain [them from voting]. Prompt report will be made to the President of the local Board of Registration of any case in which the rights of a Freedman, under the above-mentioned acts, are withheld or interfered with.
— Order Issued by United States Army Brigadier General Orestes Brown, Head of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandon Lands, 1867

Our main and fundamental object is the maintenance of the supremacy of the white race in this Republic. History and physiology teach us that we belong to a race which nature has endowed with an evident superiority over all other races. . . . It, then, becomes our solemn duty, as white men, . . . to do everything in our power in order to maintain, in this Republic, the supremacy of the Caucasian race, and restrain the black or African race to that condition of social and political inferiority for which God has destined it. This is the object for which our Order was instituted.
— Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1867

Based on the excerpts, how do the goals of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan compare?

A.
The Freedmen's Bureau sought to punish white Southerners who disagreed with emancipation, while the Ku Klux Klan sought to encourage public debate about the effects of Reconstruction.

B.
The Freedmen's Bureau sought to seize property from white Southerners to give to Black Americans, while the Ku Klux Klan sought to protect the political rights of all people in the South.

C.
The Freedmen's Bureau sought to restrict Black Americans' ability to exercise their right to vote, while the Ku Klux Klan sought to convince white Southerners to start another secessionist movement.

D.
The Freedmen's Bureau sought to prevent Black Americans from being denied the right to vote, while the Ku Klux Klan sought to deny Black Americans their social and political rights.

Answer 1

D. The Freedmen's Bureau sought to prevent Black Americans from being denied the right to vote, while the Ku Klux Klan sought to deny Black Americans their social and political rights.