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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9 The Valley and the Shadows.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.
(a) Cooperatives.
(b) Collectives.
(c) Plantations.
(d) Work gangs.

4. "________ supremacy was no longer just a rallying cry, a goal, a discourse, or a description of relations."
(a) Black.
(b) Male.
(c) Government.
(d) White.

5. Bands of whites rode through the countryside disarming freed people and making plans to call out the ___________ to deal with the blacks.
(a) Churches.
(b) Militia.
(c) KKK.
(d) ACLU.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the _______ level, blacks could hope for a significant share of county and parish offices.

2. David Medlock was an African American leader in the state of _____________.

3. _____________ often left illiterate and poorer individuals vulnerable to harassment and disenfranchisement.

4. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.

5. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.

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