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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a black man vied for office, it required the mobilization of entire ________________.
(a) States.
(b) Communities.
(c) Churches.
(d) Plantations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. The Kansas _________ movement developed where emigration sentiment had already been sparked.
(a) Exodus.
(b) Voting.
(c) Reorganization.
(d) Truth.

13. Bands of whites rode through the countryside disarming freed people and making plans to call out the ___________ to deal with the blacks.
(a) Churches.
(b) KKK.
(c) ACLU.
(d) Militia.

14. Black social and political power weakened after _____________.
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) The election of Lincoln.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Lynchings.

15. Black misgivings were often confirmed at a local level, where some Populists resorted to ____________.
(a) Violence.
(b) Boycotts.
(c) Legal action.
(d) Discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Union League tried to mobilize newly enfranchised _______ and protect them through secrecy and armed self-defense.

2. School houses were where African Americans learned about __________, their enfranchisement, and the importance of voting.

3. The young white men who were attracted to the KKK were once members of the _______________.

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

5. Blacks looks to local political power as a way to construct a new political __________.

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