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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Slave rebellions started with small scale departures for ___________ lines.
(a) Union.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Republican.
(d) Confederate.

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

3. The Friends of Universal ________ in Louisiana sought more radical reforms during this time.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Suffrage.
(c) Property.
(d) Rights.

4. Freedmen also resisted the threats of white _________, marched to the polls, and helped write new state constitutions.
(a) Republicans.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Senators.
(d) Bosses.

5. Rural freed people did not need outsiders to nurture their desire for the _________ they had been cultivating.
(a) Land.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Homes.

6. On July __________, millions of freed people claimed access to public space previously denied to them.
(a) 7th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 14th.

7. By the summer of 1867, complaints about the armed ____________ of freed people grew in volume and scope.
(a) KKK.
(b) Militia.
(c) Organizations.
(d) Black Panthers.

8. Freed blacks marched past the homes of former prominent ___________ officials and through public squares.
(a) Army.
(b) Black.
(c) Government.
(d) White.

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

10. The Union League was formed to rally public support for ________ and the war effort.
(a) Robert E. Lee.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

11. Leaders from the South joined with the __________ blacks to create a new political nation.
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Older.
(d) Younger.

12. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Burned down.
(b) Abandoned.
(c) Free.
(d) Larger.

13. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.
(a) Westward.
(b) Nativist.
(c) Immigrant.
(d) Economic.

14. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.
(a) Time periods.
(b) Movements.
(c) Events.
(d) Books.

15. David Medlock was an African American leader in the state of _____________.
(a) Georgia.
(b) Texas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.

2. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.

3. The __________ process helped to illuminate who the leaders were within black communities.

4. Many of the early organizations founded by freed people were also bound together by ____________.

5. Slaveholders and slaves believed the __________ party was hostile towards slavery.

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