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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Almost without exception, those leaving the ___________ Party had to solicit black votes.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Greenback-Labor.
(c) Independent.
(d) Republican.

2. When a black man vied for office, it required the mobilization of entire ________________.
(a) Churches.
(b) Communities.
(c) States.
(d) Plantations.

3. Many new agricultural groups claimed to stand for the interests of small farmers and drew on the political legacies of ____________.
(a) Greenbacks.
(b) Independents.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

4. Federal measures which voided the black ___________ and disbanded provisional militias drove the use of organized force underground.
(a) Rights.
(b) Ownership.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Codes.

5. In many areas, the Republican Party failed to attract enough ________ voters.
(a) Legal.
(b) Free.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

6. The community support necessary for both black voting and black officeholders found its institutional anchors in black ____________.
(a) Sports teams.
(b) Religious organizations.
(c) Slave unions.
(d) Bank owners.

7. Hiram R. Revels was the senator elect from ____________ in 1870.
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Mississippi.

8. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.
(a) Voting law.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) White authority.

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

10. While the incidence of black office holding grew, the party began to grow ____________.
(a) Apart.
(b) Larger.
(c) Weaker.
(d) Stronger.

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

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

13. African Americans understood that ____________ in the United States was build on violence and repression.
(a) Slavery.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Peace.
(d) Society.

14. The Readjusters tried to rally local communities by paying the __________ for a large number eligible voters.
(a) Poll taxes.
(b) Mortgages.
(c) Transportation costs.
(d) Taxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Klan also attacked local black __________ and school houses.

3. What is NOT one of the places where blacks considered emigrating?

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

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

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