The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s believed largely in:
A) anti-Semitic rhetoric
B) Prohibition
C) fundamentalist religious beliefs
D) anti-black rhetoric
E) "100 percent Americanism"

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"100 percent Americanism" was a major belief of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. This involved white Protestant American-born citizens being seen as the only true Americans and rejecting any influence or presence of immigrants, Catholics, Jews, or African Americans in America. The Klan believed in the superiority of the "white race" and sought to preserve the image of the "ideal American" through restrictive immigration policies and other means of exclusion. While the Klan did engage in anti-Semitic and anti-black rhetoric, these beliefs can be seen as part of their larger ideology of "100 percent Americanism." Prohibition and fundamentalist religious beliefs were not central to the Klan's platform in the 1920s.

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