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

2. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.
(a) Enslaved.
(b) Black.
(c) Belittled.
(d) Extraordinary.

3. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.
(a) Mobilizations.
(b) Finances.
(c) Churches.
(d) Protests.

4. Black ____________ also helped spread information and visions of the new nations as they made their way through the South.
(a) Politicians.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Union soldiers.

5. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.
(a) The women.
(b) The children.
(c) The slaves.
(d) The owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. The newly freed blacks began to protest ___________ treatment during this time.

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

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

4. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.

5. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 203 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample