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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. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.
(a) Pride.
(b) Community.
(c) Peace.
(d) Power.

2. What organization developed out of a network of organizations formed in the North during the Civil War?
(a) National Civil Liberties Union.
(b) Union League.
(c) NAACP.
(d) Suffragists United.

3. Lynchings were rare in areas where a community had been created and where there was some local __________.
(a) Voting law.
(b) Power.
(c) White authority.
(d) Money.

4. 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) Work gangs.
(c) Plantations.
(d) Collectives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.

2. In South Carolina, about 55% of the state legislature was filled by ______________, including many blacks.

3. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.

4. ___________ in the United States shouldered the burden of industrial development.

5. _________ to protect farms and plantation laborers were sometimes cut down by urban blacks and Mulattoes.

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