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

2. The lines of authority tended to flow from the _______ heads of household.
(a) Landowner.
(b) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Slave.

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

4. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) White authority.
(d) Voting law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. White ________ were encouraged to seek black votes with appeals and with patronage.

2. Hiram R. Revels was the senator elect from ____________ in 1870.

3. Republicans never fully gained a large hold in the state of ___________ after the Civil War.

4. By the 1870s, a strong black __________ had been established in Virgina and organization efforts were underway.

5. Many Klans believed that teaching school was a front for _____________ objectives.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did groups like the Agricultural Wheel or Farmer's Alliance say they stood for?

4. Where were the destinations where many newly freed black men were seeking to emigrate to?

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

6. What did African Americans understand clearly about the democracy of the United States?

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

8. What was happening in order to prevent black men from registering to vote and actually voting?

9. What were the main goals of the Ku Klux Klan during this period of time?

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

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