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

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

3. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?
(a) Rice.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Orange.

4. The ____________ Freedman's Convention may have been the most visible organization of this time.
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Maine.
(d) Texas.

5. Freed blacks marched past the homes of former prominent ___________ officials and through public squares.
(a) White.
(b) Army.
(c) Government.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.

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

5. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.

(see the answer key)

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