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Quiz for Document 23–3: Hiram W. Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What did Evans criticize when he complained about hyphenism?

He decried the political correctness in the switch from “black” to “African American.”

He alleged that European immigrants had adopted Americanism as a pretense only.

He implored Americans to guard their daughters’ virtue and not let them become “new women.”

He called out white Americans on their disingenuous claims that they embraced ethnic diversity.

2. What accusation did Evans make about immigrants to the United States?

Immigrants were not politically involved.

Immigrants were not prepared to compete with “Nordic” Americans.

Immigrants maintained loyalty to their nations of origin rather than to the United States.

Immigrants had no work ethic.

3. What was Evans’s strategy to reclaim the United States for “old-stock Americans”?

Armed revolution

Closed national borders

Encouragement of immigrant assimilation

Political rejection of liberalism