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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In South Carolina, about 55% of the state legislature was filled by ______________, including many blacks.
(a) Freed men.
(b) Uninformed men.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

2. The Union League tried to mobilize newly enfranchised _______ and protect them through secrecy and armed self-defense.
(a) KKK members.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Congress men.
(d) Voters.

3. ___________ advanced the cause by informing individuals about the movement and allowing them a space to discuss it.
(a) Schools.
(b) Churches.
(c) Plantations.
(d) Town halls.

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

5. Blacks who attempted to or did vote _________________ were met with harsh reprisals and sanctions.
(a) For whites.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democratic.
(d) At all.

6. White landowners and tenant farmers began to attend meetings of the Agricultural _______ or Farmer's Alliance in large numbers.
(a) Order.
(b) Wheel.
(c) Settlement.
(d) Guild.

7. African American _____________ also made emigration difficult.
(a) Political power.
(b) Families.
(c) Bureaucracy.
(d) Poverty.

8. In places where the Republican interest was strong, ___________ interest was less than in other areas.
(a) Immigration.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Settlement.
(d) Peace.

9. What is NOT one of the places where blacks considered emigrating?
(a) Europe.
(b) Latin America.
(c) Africa.
(d) Caribbean.

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

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

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

13. _____________ often left illiterate and poorer individuals vulnerable to harassment and disenfranchisement.
(a) Polling practices.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Demonstrations.
(d) KKK.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. One form of political activity that is often overlooked is the ___________ sentiment that developed.

2. "Under the best of circumstances, white _____________ embraced the ideals of civil and political equality."

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

4. "________ supremacy was no longer just a rallying cry, a goal, a discourse, or a description of relations."

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

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