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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The lines of authority tended to flow from the _______ heads of household.
(a) Female.
(b) Slave.
(c) Male.
(d) Landowner.

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

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

4. One form of political activity that is often overlooked is the ___________ sentiment that developed.
(a) White.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Separation.
(d) KKK.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. White ________ were encouraged to seek black votes with appeals and with patronage.
(a) Independents.
(b) Laborers.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

12. The ________ attacked and murdered local leaders and organizers, intimidated party supporters, and tried to force out objectionable office holders.
(a) Klan.
(b) Union League.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

13. More than a few reputed leaders argued that the KKK was a _____________ response to the Union League.
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Diastrous.
(d) Rational.

14. Whites claimed that blacks were planning on murdered their whites in order to gain their ___________.
(a) Rights.
(b) Land.
(c) Political sway.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The KKK was build on enforcing racial ________ and submission and on legacies of military defeat.

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

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

4. The _________, which sought skilled and unskilled laborers of all parties, races, and sexes, expanded from larger cities into the rural South.

5. Blacks who attempted to or did vote _________________ were met with harsh reprisals and sanctions.

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