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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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. The __________ movement was one of the most successful challenges to the Democratic Party rule in the rural South.

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

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

4. In places where the Republican interest was strong, ___________ interest was less than in other areas.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it impossible to define a typical Klan experience?

2. Where were lynchings most likely to occur, according to Hahn's findings in this book?

3. What were the promising results of the control of the legislature by the Readjusters?

4. Black groups began to challenge the Democratic and conservative rule, how were these challenges waged most aggressively?

5. What was the major achievement of Hiram R. Revels?

6. What happened with the blacks within the Republican Party regarding the white response to these new members?

7. Who did the emigration movements of the 1870s gain the most support from?

8. What was not really organized in the state of Virginia at the time of the late 1870s and early 1880s?

9. What happened to those who supported or to those who had sympathy for the Union League and its goals?

10. Where was the emigration sentiment the most powerful, according to Hahn's research?

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