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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.
(a) Democratic Party.
(b) Big House.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Confederate Army.

3. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.
(a) Business.
(b) Political.
(c) Land ownership.
(d) Financial.

4. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.
(a) Freed people.
(b) Slave owners.
(c) Women.
(d) Church leaders.

5. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.

2. Some called for a nation based on a concept of _______________ that was based on birth and loyalty, servitude, or other particularities.

3. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.

4. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.

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

(see the answer key)

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