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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6 Of Paramilitary Politics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.
(a) Economic.
(b) Westward.
(c) Immigrant.
(d) Nativist.

2. An aspect that has often been overlooked in the literature on slavery is ____________ between slaves.
(a) Infighting.
(b) Committments.
(c) Dispute resolution.
(d) Exchanges.

3. The KKK complained that freed slaves were organizing and were accumulating arms, holding ____________, and threatening mobilizations.
(a) Bake sales.
(b) Secret meetings.
(c) Elections.
(d) Militia training.

4. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.
(a) Jefferson.
(b) A black man.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) No one.

5. Congress finally moved to prohibit military personnel from ________ slaves to their owners.
(a) Challenging.
(b) Surrendering.
(c) Selling.
(d) Introducing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.

3. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?

4. Black ___________ did less field labor after emancipation than they did under slavery.

5. The ____________ Freedman's Convention may have been the most visible organization of this time.

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