View a FREE sample

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. The rumors were able to spread because thousands of slaves were drawn to ____________ during the war.
(a) The draft.
(b) Prisons.
(c) Farms.
(d) Social sites.

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

3. Hahn learned that in ________, Mississippi, freedmen and women were driving their employers to distraction in 1868.
(a) Woodville.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Chattanooga.
(d) Biloxi.

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

5. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.
(a) Risk.
(b) Collective.
(c) Secret.
(d) Political movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.

2. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.

3. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.

4. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 211 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample