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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Of Chains and Threads.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Orange.
(d) Rice.

2. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Selling handmade crafts.
(c) Cultivating subsistence and market garden plots.
(d) Raising livestock.

3. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?
(a) Emigrationism.
(b) Voting laws.
(c) Self-help.
(d) Separatism.

4. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.
(a) A black man.
(b) No one.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Lincoln.

5. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.
(a) Good behavior.
(b) Sexual favors.
(c) Ritual gifting.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.

2. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.

3. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.

4. Hahn learned that in ________, Mississippi, freedmen and women were driving their employers to distraction in 1868.

5. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.

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