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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Slave rebellions started with small scale departures for ___________ lines.
(a) Union.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Republican.
(d) Confederate.

2. ___________ called for the federal protection of slavery in the western territories.
(a) Democrats.
(b) Republicans.
(c) All whites.
(d) Slave holders.

3. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?
(a) Strong.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Weak.

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

5. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Young boys.
(b) Slaveowners.
(c) Whites.
(d) Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.

2. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.

3. Few slaves knew how to ___________ before they entered the military.

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

5. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.

(see the answer key)

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