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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.
(a) Bounty hunter.
(b) Freed slave.
(c) Slave punishment.
(d) Fugitive slave.

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

4. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.
(a) Davis Bend.
(b) Jefferson Village.
(c) Mount Davis.
(d) Black Bend.

5. "Black ________" effectively gave a separate legal and social status to blacks during this time.
(a) Laws.
(b) Movements.
(c) Rights.
(d) Codes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.

4. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.

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

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