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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. ___________ black communities viewed emigration as one of several strategies that could create freed and stable communities.
(a) Rural.
(b) Slave.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Urban.

2. Some black leaders, while sympathetic, were hesitant to support and to endorse ___________.
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Douglass.
(c) Emigration.
(d) Landowner law changes.

3. The _________, which sought skilled and unskilled laborers of all parties, races, and sexes, expanded from larger cities into the rural South.
(a) Knights of Labor.
(b) Agricultural Wheel.
(c) United Laborers.
(d) Greenback Movement.

4. The community support necessary for both black voting and black officeholders found its institutional anchors in black ____________.
(a) Slave unions.
(b) Sports teams.
(c) Religious organizations.
(d) Bank owners.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. African American _____________ also made emigration difficult.

2. The challenges of ___________, re-energized Republicans, and third parties exposed the divisions of the Democratic Party.

3. The KKK was build on enforcing racial ________ and submission and on legacies of military defeat.

4. One African American became the governor of __________ while 800 blacks served in state legislatures.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were some of the rumors spreading about the black farm workers in some areas?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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