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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the 1870s, a strong black __________ had been established in Virgina and organization efforts were underway.
(a) Plantation.
(b) Following.
(c) Church.
(d) Press.

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

3. The KKK complained that freed slaves were organizing and were accumulating arms, holding ____________, and threatening mobilizations.
(a) Militia training.
(b) Bake sales.
(c) Secret meetings.
(d) Elections.

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

5. "Under the best of circumstances, white _____________ embraced the ideals of civil and political equality."
(a) Preachers.
(b) Slaveholders.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Republicans.

6. On the _______ level, blacks could hope for a significant share of county and parish offices.
(a) Village.
(b) Local.
(c) State.
(d) National.

7. _________ to protect farms and plantation laborers were sometimes cut down by urban blacks and Mulattoes.
(a) Drafts.
(b) Laws.
(c) Bills.
(d) Speeches.

8. Newspapers, handbills, and pamphlets played a prominent role in disseminating information about emigration to ________ blacks.
(a) Western.
(b) Enslaved.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

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

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

11. ___________ black communities viewed emigration as one of several strategies that could create freed and stable communities.
(a) Rural.
(b) Urban.
(c) Slave.
(d) Enslaved.

12. Disappointment with the __________ increased the interest in emigration of African Americans.
(a) White man.
(b) Voting system.
(c) Democratic Party.
(d) Republican Party.

13. White landowners and tenant farmers began to attend meetings of the Agricultural _______ or Farmer's Alliance in large numbers.
(a) Order.
(b) Settlement.
(c) Guild.
(d) Wheel.

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

15. The Union League tried to mobilize newly enfranchised _______ and protect them through secrecy and armed self-defense.
(a) Voters.
(b) Congress men.
(c) Presidents.
(d) KKK members.

Short Answer Questions

1. Blacks looks to local political power as a way to construct a new political __________.

2. It appears that little of the interest in emigration spread to _________ areas.

3. What did the arrangement mentioned in #153 limit? This limited _________ mobilization and organization that had happened during Reconstruction.

4. School houses were where African Americans learned about __________, their enfranchisement, and the importance of voting.

5. Many Klans believed that teaching school was a front for _____________ objectives.

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