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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. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.
(a) Death.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Freedom.
(d) War.

2. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.
(a) Political.
(b) Civil.
(c) Marital.
(d) Ethnic.

3. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.
(a) Organizers.
(b) Slaveowners.
(c) Whites.
(d) African Americans.

4. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Rights.
(d) Democracy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.

3. ___________ called for the federal protection of slavery in the western territories.

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

5. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.

(see the answer key)

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