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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Some black leaders, while sympathetic, were hesitant to support and to endorse ___________.
(a) Emigration.
(b) Douglass.
(c) Landowner law changes.
(d) Lincoln.

3. Emigration sentiment seemed to be most powerful in areas where freed people labored on ____________.
(a) Political campaigns.
(b) Plantations.
(c) KKK retaliation.
(d) Voting booths.

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

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

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

7. The American _________ Society, a white dominated group, settled about 11,000 African Americans in Liberia by the time of the Civil War.
(a) Colonization.
(b) KKK.
(c) White Men.
(d) Restructuring.

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

9. ___________ in the United States shouldered the burden of industrial development.
(a) War time.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Reconstruction.

10. The __________had variations in leadership, rituals, goals, and activities that make it impossible to define a typical experience.
(a) Union League.
(b) Black community.
(c) KKK.
(d) Democratic Party.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ often left illiterate and poorer individuals vulnerable to harassment and disenfranchisement.

2. White ________ were encouraged to seek black votes with appeals and with patronage.

3. While the incidence of black office holding grew, the party began to grow ____________.

4. ___________ black communities viewed emigration as one of several strategies that could create freed and stable communities.

5. Disappointment with the __________ increased the interest in emigration of African Americans.

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