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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. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.
(a) The owners.
(b) The children.
(c) The slaves.
(d) The women.

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

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

4. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Increased.
(b) Stayed the same.
(c) Was not measured.
(d) Decreased.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?

2. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.

3. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.

4. An aspect that has often been overlooked in the literature on slavery is ____________ between slaves.

5. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.

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