Supremacy Movements

Question 6 • (AG Q4) American History 8: 25-26 (AHostetler)

Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan,

Answer

was a former Confederate general who killed African American soldiers at a fort in Tennessee.

was a former Union general who killed proslavery Confederate soldiers at a fort in Tennessee.

was a former Union general who came to the South for personal gain and was called a “carpetbagger.”

was a Republican who had served in Congress and supported Radical Reconstruction policies.

Explanation

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general during the Civil War and later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. At Fort Pillow in Tennessee in 1864, Confederate forces under his command killed many African American Union soldiers after they had surrendered or were no longer able to fight. Therefore, choice A is correct; the other choices describe Union officers or Reconstruction-era politicians, not Forrest.

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