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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The American _________ Society, a white dominated group, settled about 11,000 African Americans in Liberia by the time of the Civil War.
(a) Restructuring.
(b) KKK.
(c) White Men.
(d) Colonization.

2. In South Carolina, about 55% of the state legislature was filled by ______________, including many blacks.
(a) Freed men.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Uninformed men.
(d) Democrats.

3. Many Klans believed that teaching school was a front for _____________ objectives.
(a) Democratic.
(b) African American.
(c) Religious.
(d) Political.

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

5. The ________ attacked and murdered local leaders and organizers, intimidated party supporters, and tried to force out objectionable office holders.
(a) Democrats.
(b) Union League.
(c) Klan.
(d) Republicans.

6. The __________ movement was one of the most successful challenges to the Democratic Party rule in the rural South.
(a) KKK.
(b) Union League.
(c) Readjuster.
(d) Conservationist.

7. Wherever they lived, it was important for black voters to travel to polling sites ____________ with as many individuals as possible.
(a) Consistently.
(b) Collectively.
(c) With guns.
(d) Alone.

8. African Americans realized that any successes they might find would depend on their ability to _____________.
(a) Read.
(b) Debate with others.
(c) Do battle.
(d) Get good grades.

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

10. In some areas where based of substantial black political activity existed, an arrangement known as ________ occurred.
(a) Formation.
(b) Fusion.
(c) Readjustment.
(d) Alchemy.

11. The KKK could be seen as a __________ movement to continue the battle or avenge the consequences of surrender during the Civil War.
(a) Terrorist.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Strange.
(d) Guerilla.

12. __________ efforts generally offers African Americans a greater chance of holding office and holding some sort of political power.
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Biracial.
(d) Community.

13. Black social and political power weakened after _____________.
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The election of Lincoln.

14. It appears that little of the interest in emigration spread to _________ areas.
(a) Urban.
(b) Midwest.
(c) Rural.
(d) African.

15. African American _____________ also made emigration difficult.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Bureaucracy.
(c) Families.
(d) Political power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frederick Douglass argued that emigration amounted to _____________ of other blacks.

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

3. African Americans understood that ____________ in the United States was build on violence and repression.

4. Emigration sentiment seemed to be most powerful in areas where freed people labored on ____________.

5. _________ were most likely to occur in rural areas of the Deep South, where large and volatile black populations lived.

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