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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. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.
(a) Solidarities.
(b) Voting rules.
(c) White groups.
(d) Lynchings.

2. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Contraband.
(c) Spoils.
(d) Victims.

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

4. Slaveholders and slaves believed the __________ party was hostile towards slavery.
(a) Liberal.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Whip.

5. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?
(a) Rural South.
(b) Urban North.
(c) West Coast.
(d) East Coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.

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

3. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

4. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.

5. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

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