Correct. The answer is b. This image of a Klan wedding suggests that participants were proud to publically display their membership.

Incorrect. The answer is b. This image of a Klan wedding suggests that participants were proud to publically display their membership.

Correct. The answer is d. Although the KKK certainly sponsored marches, protests, and acts of violence, much of its work in the 1920s took place in small towns and consisted of community activities designed to attract men, women, and children.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Although the KKK certainly sponsored marches, protests, and acts of violence, much of its work in the 1920s took place in small towns and consisted of community activities designed to attract men, women, and children.

Correct. The answer is a. Semiskilled workers made up 16 percent of the KKK in Buffalo but 30 percent of the city’s population. Unskilled laborers made up 0.5 percent of the KKK membership and 14.5 percent of Buffalo’s population. From this, a historian would likely glean that many of the city’s semiskilled workers and nearly all of its unskilled workers were probably blacks and immigrants who were the targets of the KKK’s racist and nativist rhetoric and political agenda.

Incorrect. The answer is a. Semiskilled workers made up 16 percent of the KKK in Buffalo but 30 percent of the city’s population. Unskilled laborers made up 0.5 percent of the KKK membership and 14.5 percent of Buffalo’s population. From this, a historian would likely glean that many of the city’s semiskilled workers and nearly all of its unskilled workers were probably blacks and immigrants who were the targets of the KKK’s racist and nativist rhetoric and political agenda.

Correct. The answer is b. By the 1980s, the KKK was viewed with disapproval by most Americans. Because these informants were telling their stories in the 1980s, it is likely that they minimized the group’s racism and nativism in order to make their involvement in the group seem less old-fashioned and shameful.

Incorrect. The answer is b. By the 1980s, the KKK was viewed with disapproval by most Americans. Because these informants were telling their stories in the 1980s, it is likely that they minimized the group’s racism and nativism in order to make their involvement in the group seem less old-fashioned and shameful.

Correct. The answer is b. In this editorial, Evans focuses primarily on the ways that industrialists’ desire for cheap labor spurred immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, caused black migration from South to North, and “vastly increased our illiteracy, vitally lowered the health level and visibly menaced America by inheritable mental and moral deficiencies.”

Incorrect. The answer is b. In this editorial, Evans focuses primarily on the ways that industrialists’ desire for cheap labor spurred immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, caused black migration from South to North, and “vastly increased our illiteracy, vitally lowered the health level and visibly menaced America by inheritable mental and moral deficiencies.”

Correct. The answer is b. A historian would characterize this platform as one based on opposition to the emergence of the new American culture in diverse urban and industrial areas.

Incorrect. The answer is b. A historian would characterize this platform as one based on opposition to the emergence of the new American culture in diverse urban and industrial areas.