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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The great majority of African Americans in the South remained loyal to the __________ Party.
(a) Independent.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Greenback-Labor.

2. The KKK was build on enforcing racial ________ and submission and on legacies of military defeat.
(a) Servitude.
(b) Rule.
(c) Collaboration.
(d) Domination.

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

4. Although emigrations did emanate from a powerful __________-based impulse, it reveals divisions and power relations.
(a) Church.
(b) Family.
(c) Political party.
(d) Community.

5. The community support necessary for both black voting and black officeholders found its institutional anchors in black ____________.
(a) Slave unions.
(b) Sports teams.
(c) Religious organizations.
(d) Bank owners.

6. When the Republican Party began to attract more white voters, those voters would not support ____________.
(a) Land owership by blacks.
(b) Black candidates.
(c) White candidates.
(d) Voting in elections.

7. ___________ black communities viewed emigration as one of several strategies that could create freed and stable communities.
(a) Urban.
(b) Rural.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Slave.

8. Some black leaders, while sympathetic, were hesitant to support and to endorse ___________.
(a) Landowner law changes.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Douglass.

9. Bands of whites rode through the countryside disarming freed people and making plans to call out the ___________ to deal with the blacks.
(a) ACLU.
(b) Militia.
(c) Churches.
(d) KKK.

10. The __________had variations in leadership, rituals, goals, and activities that make it impossible to define a typical experience.
(a) Union League.
(b) Democratic Party.
(c) KKK.
(d) Black community.

11. It should be noted that Klansmen did not ride without fear of _________ or of meeting resistance.
(a) Legal ramifcations.
(b) Retaliation.
(c) Unmasking.
(d) Lynchings.

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

13. In many areas, the Republican Party failed to attract enough ________ voters.
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Legal.
(d) Free.

14. School houses were where African Americans learned about __________, their enfranchisement, and the importance of voting.
(a) Emigration.
(b) God.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) KKK battle tactics.

15. Newspapers, handbills, and pamphlets played a prominent role in disseminating information about emigration to ________ blacks.
(a) Enslaved.
(b) Western.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. African Americans realized that any successes they might find would depend on their ability to _____________.

3. Black misgivings were often confirmed at a local level, where some Populists resorted to ____________.

4. Legislators started off strong, reducing __________ debt, slashing taxes on real estate, chartering labor unions, etc.

5. The Klan also attacked local black __________ and school houses.

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