View a FREE sample

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. Mass meetings and small gatherings proclaimed a new black __________ presence.
(a) Community.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Taxpayer.
(d) Political.

2. Some called for a nation based on a concept of _______________ that was based on birth and loyalty, servitude, or other particularities.
(a) Voting.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Government.
(d) Trust.

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

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

5. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.
(a) Rumors.
(b) Laws.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Conventions.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Leaders from the South joined with the __________ blacks to create a new political nation.

4. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 195 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample