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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. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.
(a) Collective.
(b) Secret.
(c) Risk.
(d) Political movement.

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

3. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.
(a) Political.
(b) Free.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Equal.

4. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Blacks.
(b) Slaveowners.
(c) Whites.
(d) Young boys.

5. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.
(a) Slaves.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Free.
(d) In power.

Short Answer Questions

1. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.

2. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

3. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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