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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Of Chains and Threads.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?
(a) Selling handmade crafts.
(b) Cultivating subsistence and market garden plots.
(c) Raising livestock.
(d) Hunting.

3. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.
(a) Education.
(b) Political.
(c) Voting.
(d) Labor.

4. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.
(a) White groups.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Solidarities.
(d) Voting rules.

5. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.
(a) Employment.
(b) Resistance.
(c) Attacks.
(d) Population.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.

2. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.

3. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.

4. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.

5. Hahn learned that in ________, Mississippi, freedmen and women were driving their employers to distraction in 1868.

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