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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 7 The Education of Henry Adams.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Frederick Douglass argued that emigration amounted to _____________ of other blacks.
(a) A religion.
(b) An abandonment.
(c) A necessity.
(d) An organization.

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

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

4. "Black ________" effectively gave a separate legal and social status to blacks during this time.
(a) Rights.
(b) Laws.
(c) Movements.
(d) Codes.

5. The delegates who gathered in state __________ that year were composed of both black and white men.
(a) Farming communities.
(b) Board rooms.
(c) Parks.
(d) Capitols.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.

2. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.

3. The Reconstruction Klan seems to many African Americans to be a new form of the old ____________.

4. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.

5. "Under the best of circumstances, white _____________ embraced the ideals of civil and political equality."

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