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

2. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Larger.
(b) Free.
(c) Burned down.
(d) Abandoned.

3. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Young boys.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Whites.

4. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.
(a) Civil War.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Antebellum.
(d) Abolition Movement.

5. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.
(a) Women.
(b) Freed people.
(c) Slave owners.
(d) Church leaders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.

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

4. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.

5. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.

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