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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. In places where the Republican interest was strong, ___________ interest was less than in other areas.
(a) Peace.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Settlement.
(d) Immigration.

2. Emigration sentiment seemed to be most powerful in areas where freed people labored on ____________.
(a) Political campaigns.
(b) Voting booths.
(c) KKK retaliation.
(d) Plantations.

3. The Klan was controlled by white rural bosses and ___________ governments.
(a) Community.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Shadow.

4. School houses were where African Americans learned about __________, their enfranchisement, and the importance of voting.
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Emigration.
(c) KKK battle tactics.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Reconstruction Klan seems to many African Americans to be a new form of the old ____________.

2. When a black man vied for office, it required the mobilization of entire ________________.

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

4. Blacks who attempted to or did vote _________________ were met with harsh reprisals and sanctions.

5. Black social and political power weakened after _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What were some of the tactics used by members of the opposition to the black vote to keep blacks away from voting?

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

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

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