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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. When the Republican Party began to attract more white voters, those voters would not support ____________.
(a) Land owership by blacks.
(b) White candidates.
(c) Black candidates.
(d) Voting in elections.

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

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

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

5. Blacks looks to local political power as a way to construct a new political __________.
(a) State.
(b) Structure.
(c) Identity.
(d) Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. In South Carolina, about 55% of the state legislature was filled by ______________, including many blacks.

2. Newspapers, handbills, and pamphlets played a prominent role in disseminating information about emigration to ________ blacks.

3. Local landowners used intimidation, paramilitary violence and threatened steamboat captains with _________ if they took black passengers.

4. "________ supremacy was no longer just a rallying cry, a goal, a discourse, or a description of relations."

5. The __________ Party was the greats white insurgency of post-emancipation.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who did the KKK first attract to be a part of their membership in the early stages of formation?

3. What happened with the blacks within the Republican Party regarding the white response to these new members?

4. What organization was said to be a necessary response to the formation of the Union League?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is it impossible to define a typical Klan experience?

10. What industry in the United States had to shoulder the burden of industrial development?

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