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

2. Almost universally, freed people believed that some __________ for the trials of slavery should occur.
(a) Punishment.
(b) Compensation.
(c) Law changes.
(d) Apology.

3. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.
(a) Be free.
(b) Vote.
(c) Get married.
(d) Own land.

4. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Strong.
(d) Weak.

5. As the __________ government organized, opportunities increased for slaves to become better acquainted with each other and political events.
(a) Confederate.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) Republican.
(d) Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.

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

3. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?

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

5. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.

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