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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the arrangement mentioned in #153 limit? This limited _________ mobilization and organization that had happened during Reconstruction.
(a) Labor.
(b) Slave.
(c) Grassroots.
(d) Church.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Disappointment with the __________ increased the interest in emigration of African Americans.
(a) Voting system.
(b) Democratic Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) White man.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It was as enforcers that black __________ may have made their most influential and powerful contributions to developing political communities.

2. The Klan was controlled by white rural bosses and ___________ governments.

3. The American _________ Society, a white dominated group, settled about 11,000 African Americans in Liberia by the time of the Civil War.

4. Whites claimed that blacks were planning on murdered their whites in order to gain their ___________.

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

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