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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Blacks looks to local political power as a way to construct a new political __________.
(a) Movement.
(b) Structure.
(c) Identity.
(d) State.

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

4. The Reconstruction Klan seems to many African Americans to be a new form of the old ____________.
(a) Republican Party.
(b) Patrol System.
(c) Slave gangs.
(d) Confederate Government.

5. It was as enforcers that black __________ may have made their most influential and powerful contributions to developing political communities.
(a) Men.
(b) Priests.
(c) Women.
(d) Teens.

6. "Under the best of circumstances, white _____________ embraced the ideals of civil and political equality."
(a) Democrats.
(b) Slaveholders.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Republicans.

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

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

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

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

11. Hiram R. Revels was the senator elect from ____________ in 1870.
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

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

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

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

15. In some areas where based of substantial black political activity existed, an arrangement known as ________ occurred.
(a) Fusion.
(b) Readjustment.
(c) Formation.
(d) Alchemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the arrangement mentioned in #153 limit? This limited _________ mobilization and organization that had happened during Reconstruction.

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

3. Many Klans believed that teaching school was a front for _____________ objectives.

4. The __________ movement was one of the most successful challenges to the Democratic Party rule in the rural South.

5. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.

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