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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Guerilla.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Strange.

2. White ________ were encouraged to seek black votes with appeals and with patronage.
(a) Democrats.
(b) Laborers.
(c) Independents.
(d) Republicans.

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

4. On the _______ level, blacks could hope for a significant share of county and parish offices.
(a) State.
(b) Village.
(c) Local.
(d) National.

5. When the Republican Party began to attract more white voters, those voters would not support ____________.
(a) Land owership by blacks.
(b) Voting in elections.
(c) White candidates.
(d) Black candidates.

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

7. 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) Greenback Movement.
(c) United Laborers.
(d) Knights of Labor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. More than a few reputed leaders argued that the KKK was a _____________ response to the Union League.

2. Emigration won support from the educated, ________ free men of color in the North during antebellum.

3. The __________had variations in leadership, rituals, goals, and activities that make it impossible to define a typical experience.

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

5. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.

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