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

2. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.
(a) Wages.
(b) Pieces of land.
(c) Bribes.
(d) Houses.

3. Hahn learned that in ________, Mississippi, freedmen and women were driving their employers to distraction in 1868.
(a) Memphis.
(b) Woodville.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Chattanooga.

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

5. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Free.
(b) Larger.
(c) Burned down.
(d) Abandoned.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.

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

4. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?

5. Slaves in the South began to gain ________ for themselves as well as looser standards.

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