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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration | Quiz

Steven Hahn
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1)

Some called for a nation based on a concept of _______________ that was based on birth and loyalty, servitude, or other particularities. (from Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations)

Voting.
Government.
Trust.
Citizenship.
2)

Migrating African Americans carried with them their ____________ developments and knowledge about their goals. (from Epilogue Up, You Mighty Race)

Labor.
Political.
Spiritual.
Religious.
3)

Congress gave the federal government the ability to restructure the ______________ states. (from Part 2, Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Body Politic)

Confederate.
Union.
Slave owner.
Western.
4)

Rural freed people did not need outsiders to nurture their desire for the _________ they had been cultivating. (from Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations)

Power.
Money.
Homes.
Land.
5)

What organization developed out of a network of organizations formed in the North during the Civil War? (from Part 2, Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Body Politic)

Suffragists United.
National Civil Liberties Union.
Union League.
NAACP.
6)

Wherever they lived, it was important for black voters to travel to polling sites ____________ with as many individuals as possible. (from Part 2, Chapter 5 A Society Turned Bottomside Up)

Alone.
Collectively.
Consistently.
With guns.
7)

Not only did the answer of #169 change the lives of African Americans but it also ________________. (from Epilogue Up, You Mighty Race)

Ended slavery.
Led to the end of the KKK.
Ended racial discrimination.
Changed the nation as a whole.
8)

Garvey tapped the traditions of ____________ and goals that had been developing. (from Epilogue Up, You Mighty Race)

Action.
Community.
Thought.
Family.
9)

_____________ often left illiterate and poorer individuals vulnerable to harassment and disenfranchisement. (from Part 2, Chapter 5 A Society Turned Bottomside Up)

KKK.
Democrats.
Demonstrations.
Polling practices.
10)

Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party. (from Part 2, Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Body Politic)

Emigrating.
Lynching.
Registering to vote.
Picketing.
11)

Although emigrations did emanate from a powerful __________-based impulse, it reveals divisions and power relations. (from Part 3, Chapter 7 The Education of Henry Adams)

Family.
Political party.
Church.
Community.
12)

When the Republican Party began to attract more white voters, those voters would not support ____________. (from Part 2, Chapter 5 A Society Turned Bottomside Up)

Black candidates.
Voting in elections.
White candidates.
Land owership by blacks.
13)

By drilling, marching, and posting sentinels, ___________ reminded each other of the risks they faced while offering protection. (from Part 2, Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Body Politic)

Women.
Freed people.
Slaves.
Young men.
14)

The great majority of African Americans in the South remained loyal to the __________ Party. (from Part 3, Chapter 8 Of Ballots and Biracialism)

Republican.
Greenback-Labor.
Independent.
Democratic.
15)

Almost universally, freed people believed that some __________ for the trials of slavery should occur. (from Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations)

Law changes.
Apology.
Punishment.
Compensation.
16)

___________ black communities viewed emigration as one of several strategies that could create freed and stable communities. (from Part 3, Chapter 7 The Education of Henry Adams)

Rural.
Slave.
Enslaved.
Urban.
17)

What did the arrangement mentioned in #153 limit? This limited _________ mobilization and organization that had happened during Reconstruction. (from Part 3, Chapter 8 Of Ballots and Biracialism)

Grassroots.
Labor.
Church.
Slave.
18)

The Reconstruction Klan seems to many African Americans to be a new form of the old ____________. (from Part 2, Chapter 6 Of Paramilitary Politics)

Slave gangs.
Confederate Government.
Patrol System.
Republican Party.
19)

Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________. (from Part 3, Chapter 9 The Valley and the Shadows)

White authority.
Power.
Money.
Voting law.
20)

Marcus Garvey's organization was called the Universal ________ Improvement Association. (from Epilogue Up, You Mighty Race)

Black.
Negro.
America.
Society.
21)

Effective ___________ had to come from groups like the Union League and the Republican Party. (from Part 2, Chapter 5 A Society Turned Bottomside Up)

Voters.
Resources.
Support.
Organization.
22)

It should be noted that Klansmen did not ride without fear of _________ or of meeting resistance. (from Part 2, Chapter 6 Of Paramilitary Politics)

Retaliation.
Lynchings.
Unmasking.
Legal ramifcations.
23)

"Under the best of circumstances, white _____________ embraced the ideals of civil and political equality." (from Part 2, Chapter 5 A Society Turned Bottomside Up)

Preachers.
Slaveholders.
Republicans.
Democrats.
24)

Disappointment with the __________ increased the interest in emigration of African Americans. (from Part 3, Chapter 7 The Education of Henry Adams)

White man.
Democratic Party.
Republican Party.
Voting system.
25)

The rumors were able to spread because thousands of slaves were drawn to ____________ during the war. (from Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations)

Social sites.
Farms.
Prisons.
The draft.
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