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

2. More than a few reputed leaders argued that the KKK was a _____________ response to the Union League.
(a) Diastrous.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Rational.

3. ___________ in the United States shouldered the burden of industrial development.
(a) War time.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Slavery.

4. The Kansas _________ movement developed where emigration sentiment had already been sparked.
(a) Truth.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Reorganization.
(d) Voting.

5. The KKK was build on enforcing racial ________ and submission and on legacies of military defeat.
(a) Servitude.
(b) Collaboration.
(c) Domination.
(d) Rule.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many new agricultural groups claimed to stand for the interests of small farmers and drew on the political legacies of ____________.

2. Disappointment with the __________ increased the interest in emigration of African Americans.

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are some of the positions which black men occupied during the time of more black influence?

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

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