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

2. Legislators started off strong, reducing __________ debt, slashing taxes on real estate, chartering labor unions, etc.
(a) National.
(b) State.
(c) Construction.
(d) Personal.

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

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

5. The challenges of ___________, re-energized Republicans, and third parties exposed the divisions of the Democratic Party.
(a) The KKK.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Independents.
(d) Emigration.

Short Answer Questions

1. In many areas, the Republican Party failed to attract enough ________ voters.

2. Many areas of the world suffered a/an ___________ in the 1870s and again in the 1890s.

3. White landowners and tenant farmers began to attend meetings of the Agricultural _______ or Farmer's Alliance in large numbers.

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

5. The KKK complained that freed slaves were organizing and were accumulating arms, holding ____________, and threatening mobilizations.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did the Readjusters attempt to organize their party in 1879 in Virginia?

6. What were the main goals of the Ku Klux Klan during this period of time?

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

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

9. Where did black officeholders seem to be present the most often?

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

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