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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. The KKK could be seen as a __________ movement to continue the battle or avenge the consequences of surrender during the Civil War.
(a) Terrorist.
(b) Strange.
(c) Guerilla.
(d) Unconscious.

7. The Readjusters tried to rally local communities by paying the __________ for a large number eligible voters.
(a) Poll taxes.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Mortgages.
(d) Transportation costs.

8. The Klan was controlled by white rural bosses and ___________ governments.
(a) Shadow.
(b) Community.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Invisible.

9. The _________, which sought skilled and unskilled laborers of all parties, races, and sexes, expanded from larger cities into the rural South.
(a) Agricultural Wheel.
(b) United Laborers.
(c) Greenback Movement.
(d) Knights of Labor.

10. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.
(a) Power.
(b) Voting law.
(c) Money.
(d) White authority.

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

12. While the incidence of black office holding grew, the party began to grow ____________.
(a) Weaker.
(b) Apart.
(c) Stronger.
(d) Larger.

13. The KKK complained that freed slaves were organizing and were accumulating arms, holding ____________, and threatening mobilizations.
(a) Secret meetings.
(b) Bake sales.
(c) Militia training.
(d) Elections.

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

15. Members of the opposition parties would use ___________, intimidation, and violence to induce blacks not to vote.
(a) Violence.
(b) Jail time.
(c) Bribes.
(d) Force.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newspapers, handbills, and pamphlets played a prominent role in disseminating information about emigration to ________ blacks.

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

3. Bands of whites rode through the countryside disarming freed people and making plans to call out the ___________ to deal with the blacks.

4. _________ to protect farms and plantation laborers were sometimes cut down by urban blacks and Mulattoes.

5. On the _______ level, blacks could hope for a significant share of county and parish offices.

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