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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. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.
(a) Rumors.
(b) Laws.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Conventions.

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

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

4. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.
(a) Churches.
(b) Life.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Literature.

5. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.
(a) Be free.
(b) Vote.
(c) Get married.
(d) Own land.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Freed blacks marched past the homes of former prominent ___________ officials and through public squares.

3. Almost universally, freed people believed that some __________ for the trials of slavery should occur.

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

5. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.

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