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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Frederick Douglass argued that emigration amounted to _____________ of other blacks.
(a) A religion.
(b) An abandonment.
(c) A necessity.
(d) An organization.

3. Black misgivings were often confirmed at a local level, where some Populists resorted to ____________.
(a) Legal action.
(b) Boycotts.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Violence.

4. It appears that little of the interest in emigration spread to _________ areas.
(a) African.
(b) Midwest.
(c) Urban.
(d) Rural.

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

6. The Kansas _________ movement developed where emigration sentiment had already been sparked.
(a) Reorganization.
(b) Voting.
(c) Truth.
(d) Exodus.

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

8. Almost without exception, those leaving the ___________ Party had to solicit black votes.
(a) Independent.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Greenback-Labor.

9. Federal measures which voided the black ___________ and disbanded provisional militias drove the use of organized force underground.
(a) Rights.
(b) Ownership.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Codes.

10. Emigration sentiment seemed to be most powerful in areas where freed people labored on ____________.
(a) Plantations.
(b) Voting booths.
(c) Political campaigns.
(d) KKK retaliation.

11. The __________ movement was one of the most successful challenges to the Democratic Party rule in the rural South.
(a) KKK.
(b) Union League.
(c) Readjuster.
(d) Conservationist.

12. Wherever they lived, it was important for black voters to travel to polling sites ____________ with as many individuals as possible.
(a) Consistently.
(b) Alone.
(c) With guns.
(d) Collectively.

13. On the _______ level, blacks could hope for a significant share of county and parish offices.
(a) State.
(b) Village.
(c) National.
(d) Local.

14. Many Klans believed that teaching school was a front for _____________ objectives.
(a) Religious.
(b) Democratic.
(c) African American.
(d) Political.

15. Emigration won support from the educated, ________ free men of color in the North during antebellum.
(a) Rural.
(b) Urban.
(c) Organized.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. In some areas where based of substantial black political activity existed, an arrangement known as ________ occurred.

2. Although emigrations did emanate from a powerful __________-based impulse, it reveals divisions and power relations.

3. It was as enforcers that black __________ may have made their most influential and powerful contributions to developing political communities.

4. The challenges of ___________, re-energized Republicans, and third parties exposed the divisions of the Democratic Party.

5. It should be noted that Klansmen did not ride without fear of _________ or of meeting resistance.

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