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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 8 Of Ballots and Biracialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.
(a) Resistance.
(b) Population.
(c) Employment.
(d) Attacks.

2. The delegates who gathered in state __________ that year were composed of both black and white men.
(a) Board rooms.
(b) Capitols.
(c) Farming communities.
(d) Parks.

3. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Decreased.
(b) Stayed the same.
(c) Was not measured.
(d) Increased.

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

5. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.
(a) Be free.
(b) Own land.
(c) Get married.
(d) Vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Readjusters tried to rally local communities by paying the __________ for a large number eligible voters.

2. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.

3. Newspapers, handbills, and pamphlets played a prominent role in disseminating information about emigration to ________ blacks.

4. By the 1870s, a strong black __________ had been established in Virgina and organization efforts were underway.

5. Almost without exception, those leaving the ___________ Party had to solicit black votes.

(see the answer key)

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