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

2. One African American became the governor of __________ while 800 blacks served in state legislatures.
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Texas.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Mississippi.

3. Local landowners used intimidation, paramilitary violence and threatened steamboat captains with _________ if they took black passengers.
(a) Boycotts.
(b) Fires.
(c) Lynchings.
(d) Taxes.

4. In some areas where based of substantial black political activity existed, an arrangement known as ________ occurred.
(a) Formation.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Readjustment.
(d) Fusion.

5. Although emigrations did emanate from a powerful __________-based impulse, it reveals divisions and power relations.
(a) Family.
(b) Political party.
(c) Church.
(d) Community.

Short Answer Questions

1. It should be noted that Klansmen did not ride without fear of _________ or of meeting resistance.

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

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

4. The American _________ Society, a white dominated group, settled about 11,000 African Americans in Liberia by the time of the Civil War.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Readjusters attempt to organize their party in 1879 in Virginia?

2. What are some of the positions which black men occupied during the time of more black influence?

3. What industry in the United States had to shoulder the burden of industrial development?

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

5. What was Frederick Douglass' response to the idea of emigration for newly freed blacks?

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

7. What did some whites do in response to the threat of emigration of their black help?

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

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

10. Where did black officeholders seem to be present the most often?

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