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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.

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

3. ___________ called for the federal protection of slavery in the western territories.

4. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.

5. Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Congress allow the federal government to do during the time of the reconstruction?

2. What did slaves believe was imminent because of the election of a certain president?

3. What is the African American David Medlock help to organize in Texas?

4. By the mid nineteenth century, how did the slaves of the South begin to change the slave-master relationship?

5. Why did the Union League spread rapidly through the plantation belt at the time?

6. What did the slaveholders and the slaves of the 1850s think about the Republican Party?

7. What did the contraband camps provide for the African American slaves once their freedom was emerging?

8. Who was included in the processions of freed black slaves as they marched through town?

9. Why are books which focus on shorter time periods of African American history not effective?

10. What happened when leaders of the South joined with Northern blacks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

White southerners were afraid that their land was going to be taken away from them and redistributed to the freed slaves.

Part 1: Why do you think the white southerners were afraid to lose their land?

Part 2: How do you think freed slaves might have reacted if they found out that they had no land to use?

Part 3: Do you think there is a better way the land redistribution might have been handled? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Though keeping someone as a slave is certainly wrong, it is difficult to deny the many benefits of using slaves as well.

Part 1: Why do you think slave owners brought over slaves in the first place?

Part 2: How do you think society might have been had slaves never been freed?

Part 3: Do you think having a slave might have been helpful if you were a landowner back in that time? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

African Americans had legal rights in the United States before women, which seems to create a sort of hierarchy of importance for the two groups.

Part 1: Why do you think African Americans succeeded in getting their rights before women?

Part 2: How might society be different today had women gotten their rights sooner?

Part 3: Do you believe that African Americans and women are treated equally today? Why or why not?

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