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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Disappointment with the __________ increased the interest in emigration of African Americans.
(a) Republican Party.
(b) Democratic Party.
(c) White man.
(d) Voting system.

2. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.
(a) Voting law.
(b) White authority.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.

3. Whites claimed that blacks were planning on murdered their whites in order to gain their ___________.
(a) Rights.
(b) Political sway.
(c) Money.
(d) Land.

4. Black social and political power weakened after _____________.
(a) Slavery.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) The election of Lincoln.
(d) Reconstruction.

5. The Reconstruction Klan seems to many African Americans to be a new form of the old ____________.
(a) Slave gangs.
(b) Republican Party.
(c) Patrol System.
(d) Confederate Government.

6. African Americans realized that any successes they might find would depend on their ability to _____________.
(a) Read.
(b) Get good grades.
(c) Do battle.
(d) Debate with others.

7. When a black man vied for office, it required the mobilization of entire ________________.
(a) Communities.
(b) Churches.
(c) Plantations.
(d) States.

8. What is NOT one of the places where blacks considered emigrating?
(a) Europe.
(b) Africa.
(c) Latin America.
(d) Caribbean.

9. The Union League tried to mobilize newly enfranchised _______ and protect them through secrecy and armed self-defense.
(a) Voters.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Congress men.
(d) KKK members.

10. Members of the opposition parties would use ___________, intimidation, and violence to induce blacks not to vote.
(a) Jail time.
(b) Force.
(c) Bribes.
(d) Violence.

11. The American _________ Society, a white dominated group, settled about 11,000 African Americans in Liberia by the time of the Civil War.
(a) Restructuring.
(b) KKK.
(c) White Men.
(d) Colonization.

12. What did the arrangement mentioned in #153 limit? This limited _________ mobilization and organization that had happened during Reconstruction.
(a) Church.
(b) Slave.
(c) Labor.
(d) Grassroots.

13. The Klan also attacked local black __________ and school houses.
(a) Stadiums.
(b) Drinking fountains.
(c) Churches.
(d) Grocery stores.

14. Local landowners used intimidation, paramilitary violence and threatened steamboat captains with _________ if they took black passengers.
(a) Taxes.
(b) Boycotts.
(c) Lynchings.
(d) Fires.

15. Many areas of the world suffered a/an ___________ in the 1870s and again in the 1890s.
(a) Epidemic.
(b) KKK battle.
(c) Emigration movement.
(d) Economic depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. In South Carolina, about 55% of the state legislature was filled by ______________, including many blacks.

2. One form of political activity that is often overlooked is the ___________ sentiment that developed.

3. Hiram R. Revels was the senator elect from ____________ in 1870.

4. The __________ movement was one of the most successful challenges to the Democratic Party rule in the rural South.

5. The young white men who were attracted to the KKK were once members of the _______________.

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