Code Words
What letter(s) were added to the beginning of words to create a secret language?
A. K
B. Cl
C. Kl
C. Kl
When was the KKK founded?
A. After the Declaration of Independence
B. In the aftermath of the civil war
C. During the civil rights movement.
B.
What city had become the klan headquarters after the decline in activity during World War II?
A. Atlanta, Georgia
B. Tallahassee, Florida
C. Montauk, New York
A. Atlanta, Georgia
State of the art
Good: implies a new, modern, well kept house
In what decade were the lynching of blacks the highest?
A. 1890-1899
B. 1900-1909
C. 1910-1919
A. 1,111
What was the handshake of the KKK?
A. A right handed but very firm handshake
B. A left handed limp handshake
C. A standard handshake
B. A left handed limp handshake
Who founded the KKK?
A. 6 former confederate soldiers
B. 6 former senate members
C. 6 plantation owners
A.
True or false: a man who was born into a long line of Klansman, dating all the way back to the reconstruction era, was one of the main reasons the KKK fell from power.
True, during the 1920s, a man named Stetson Kennedy was born in Atlanta. Kennedy belongs to a long line of Klansman, dating all the way back to the reconstruction era. Yet Kennedy himself was an opponent of racism, and spent much of his adult life collecting the folk tales of African-Americans in the south. Kennedy despised the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan and wrote an exposé of the Klansman history, exposing insider information.
Spacious
Bad: looked at as impractical
Yes or no:Is there any correlation between number of lynchings and klan membership?
Yes or no: no, there were actually more lynchings of blacks between 1900-1909 when the clan was dormant then during the 1920s when the clan had millions of members
Who was Mr. Ayak?
A. The head of the KKK
B. Any random member of the KKK
C. A victim of the KKK
B. Any random member of the KKK. This is how people would find other members in different towns.
How did the KKK operate in the beginning?
A. Their pranks were harmless and just forms of intimidation
B. They auctioned off slaves
C. They frightened and killed emancipated slaves
A
True or false: the KKK only targeted black people.
False: During the 1920s the KKK not only target black people but also Catholics, Jews, communists, unionists, immigrants, agitators, and other disruptors of the status quo
Granite
Good: if you like granite you will like the house but even if you don’t, granite doesn’t connote a fixer upper. Physical descriptive terms are very specific and straightforward making them very useful
Between what decades did the number of lynchings decrease the most?
A. 1890s-1900s
B. 1900s-1910s
C. 1910s-1920s
A. Dropped by 320 lynchings
Who is Mr. Akai?
A. A random member
B. The head
C. A victim
A. A random member.
At its height, what was the primary purpose of the KKK?
A. To prevent the Jim Crow laws
B. To fight Plessy v. Ferguson
C. To prevent the blacks rights to land, vote and education
C.
What was an event that cause the KKK to be less active?
A. The Olympics
B. The construction of Disneyland
C. World war two
C. The onset of World War II and a number of internal scandals once again laid the klan low. Public sentiment turned against the klan as the unity of a country at war trumped it’s message of separatism
Great neighborhood
Bad: the house is not very nice but others in the neighborhood may be
In the 1920s, did more black children die in infancy or by lynching?
Infancy. While roughly 20,000 children died each year by infancy (malnutrition, pneumonia, etc.) only 28 people were lynched in a year.
What were the Klavaliers?
A. A group organized to take down the KKK
B. The victims of the KKK
C. The KKK’s secret police force
C. The secret police force.
The name Ku Klux Klan is derived from the Greek word “kuklos”. what does kuklos mean?
A. Triangle
B. Circle
C. Fight
B.
True or false: KKK members still exist today.
True: the organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017; more than half of today’s klans formed in the last three years
Fantastic
Bad: doesn’t have many specific attributes worth describing
How many blacks were lynched between the years of 1960 and 1969?
A. 3
B.7
C. 18
A. 3