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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. ___________ advanced the cause by informing individuals about the movement and allowing them a space to discuss it.
(a) Plantations.
(b) Town halls.
(c) Schools.
(d) Churches.

2. What is NOT one of the places where blacks considered emigrating?
(a) Europe.
(b) Africa.
(c) Latin America.
(d) Caribbean.

3. The __________ Party was the greats white insurgency of post-emancipation.
(a) Populist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Republican.
(d) Labor.

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

5. The challenges of ___________, re-energized Republicans, and third parties exposed the divisions of the Democratic Party.
(a) Independents.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) The KKK.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ often left illiterate and poorer individuals vulnerable to harassment and disenfranchisement.

2. It was as enforcers that black __________ may have made their most influential and powerful contributions to developing political communities.

3. Black social and political power weakened after _____________.

4. ___________ in the United States shouldered the burden of industrial development.

5. __________ efforts generally offers African Americans a greater chance of holding office and holding some sort of political power.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What organization was said to be a necessary response to the formation of the Union League?

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

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

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

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

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