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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. African Americans understood that ____________ in the United States was build on violence and repression.
(a) Peace.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Society.

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

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

5. _________ to protect farms and plantation laborers were sometimes cut down by urban blacks and Mulattoes.
(a) Laws.
(b) Drafts.
(c) Bills.
(d) Speeches.

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

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

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

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

10. The challenges of ___________, re-energized Republicans, and third parties exposed the divisions of the Democratic Party.
(a) Emigration.
(b) The KKK.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Independents.

11. "________ supremacy was no longer just a rallying cry, a goal, a discourse, or a description of relations."
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Government.
(d) Male.

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

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

14. When a black man vied for office, it required the mobilization of entire ________________.
(a) States.
(b) Churches.
(c) Plantations.
(d) Communities.

15. Effective ___________ had to come from groups like the Union League and the Republican Party.
(a) Organization.
(b) Voters.
(c) Resources.
(d) Support.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The KKK complained that freed slaves were organizing and were accumulating arms, holding ____________, and threatening mobilizations.

3. __________ efforts generally offers African Americans a greater chance of holding office and holding some sort of political power.

4. More than a few reputed leaders argued that the KKK was a _____________ response to the Union League.

5. _________ were most likely to occur in rural areas of the Deep South, where large and volatile black populations lived.

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