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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. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.
(a) Workers.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Battered.
(d) Slaves.

2. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?
(a) Separatism.
(b) Emigrationism.
(c) Voting laws.
(d) Self-help.

3. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.
(a) Good behavior.
(b) Ritual gifting.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Sexual favors.

4. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.
(a) Confederate Army.
(b) Big House.
(c) Democratic Party.
(d) Republican Party.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.

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

4. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.

5. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?

(see the answer key)

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