A Primary Motive for the Formation of the Ku Klux

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.