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The Civil War and Reconstruction — Test

Question 23 • US History and Geography

Racial violence in the South in the late 1800s often included lynching, which is another term for

Answer
A
setting a sharecropper's house and fields on fire.
B
unlawfully taking someone's possessions.
C
killing, usually by hanging, without a trial.
D
forcing someone to work at gunpoint.

Explanation

Lynching is the unlawful killing of a person by a group, often by hanging and without a fair trial. So the correct choice is “killing, usually by hanging, without a trial.”

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