Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: C - At the 1924 Democratic Convention the Ku Klux Klan played a significant role in defeating Al Smith’s presidential nomination because Smith was Catholic. In the 1920s, as the KKK experienced a resurgence, they discriminated against non-Protestant religious denominations almost as much as they discriminated against African-Americans. The KKK was so raucous during the convention that it came to be known as the “Klanbake.”