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A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was
 
  a. hostility to the growing practice of interracial sexual relations and marriage.
  b. anger at the corruption in Reconstruction legislatures.
  c. the southern desire to instigate guerrilla warfare against the occupying U.S. Army.
  d. political disenfranchisement experienced by poor whites in the South.
  e. white resistance in the South to constitutional and federal legislative attempts to empower blacks politically and challenge white supremacy.

Question 2

American diplomats to the peace negotiations in Paris in 1782-1783 were instructed by the Second Continental Congress to
 
  a. accept any British offer that would essentially return British-American relations to their pre-1763 status.
  b. demand British cession of the trans-Allegheny West to the colonies.
  c. get the colonies out of their obligations under the Franco-American alliances.
  d. consult with the colonies' French allies and make no separate peace arrangements with the British.
  e. follow the lead of Spain, not France.



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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

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