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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. African Americans realized that any successes they might find would depend on their ability to _____________.
(a) Debate with others.
(b) Get good grades.
(c) Read.
(d) Do battle.

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

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

7. The KKK was build on enforcing racial ________ and submission and on legacies of military defeat.
(a) Servitude.
(b) Rule.
(c) Collaboration.
(d) Domination.

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Democratic Party.
(d) KKK.

13. The young white men who were attracted to the KKK were once members of the _______________.
(a) Confederate Army.
(b) Landowner's associations.
(c) Planations.
(d) Government.

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

15. By the 1870s, a strong black __________ had been established in Virgina and organization efforts were underway.
(a) Following.
(b) Plantation.
(c) Church.
(d) Press.

Short Answer Questions

1. It appears that little of the interest in emigration spread to _________ areas.

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

3. Almost without exception, those leaving the ___________ Party had to solicit black votes.

4. Some black leaders, while sympathetic, were hesitant to support and to endorse ___________.

5. The _________, which sought skilled and unskilled laborers of all parties, races, and sexes, expanded from larger cities into the rural South.

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