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

2. Whites claimed that blacks were planning on murdered their whites in order to gain their ___________.
(a) Political sway.
(b) Land.
(c) Rights.
(d) Money.

3. When the Republican Party began to attract more white voters, those voters would not support ____________.
(a) Voting in elections.
(b) Land owership by blacks.
(c) Black candidates.
(d) White candidates.

4. The great majority of African Americans in the South remained loyal to the __________ Party.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Independent.
(c) Republican.
(d) Greenback-Labor.

5. _____________ often left illiterate and poorer individuals vulnerable to harassment and disenfranchisement.
(a) Demonstrations.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Polling practices.
(d) KKK.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The community support necessary for both black voting and black officeholders found its institutional anchors in black ____________.

3. While the incidence of black office holding grew, the party began to grow ____________.

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

5. White landowners and tenant farmers began to attend meetings of the Agricultural _______ or Farmer's Alliance in large numbers.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who did the KKK first attract to be a part of their membership in the early stages of formation?

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

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