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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. The __________had variations in leadership, rituals, goals, and activities that make it impossible to define a typical experience.
(a) KKK.
(b) Black community.
(c) Union League.
(d) Democratic Party.

2. African Americans understood that ____________ in the United States was build on violence and repression.
(a) Peace.
(b) Society.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Slavery.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One form of political activity that is often overlooked is the ___________ sentiment that developed.

2. Black misgivings were often confirmed at a local level, where some Populists resorted to ____________.

3. Local landowners used intimidation, paramilitary violence and threatened steamboat captains with _________ if they took black passengers.

4. The Kansas _________ movement developed where emigration sentiment had already been sparked.

5. Legislators started off strong, reducing __________ debt, slashing taxes on real estate, chartering labor unions, etc.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was the movement of emigration shared with the black community?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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