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During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was to

eliminate sharecropping in the Southern States


encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe


prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights


support the South during the Civil War

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It was a response to formerly enslaved people gaining rights.

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It was to prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights.
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