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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Body Politic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some called for a nation based on a concept of _______________ that was based on birth and loyalty, servitude, or other particularities.
(a) Trust.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Voting.
(d) Government.

2. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Four.

3. Congress gave the federal government the ability to restructure the ______________ states.
(a) Slave owner.
(b) Confederate.
(c) Union.
(d) Western.

4. Military district commanders worked to educate and protect ______________, who did not understand the process or feared consequences.
(a) Each other.
(b) Women and children.
(c) People in power.
(d) Freed men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mass meetings and small gatherings proclaimed a new black __________ presence.

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

3. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.

4. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.

5. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

(see the answer key)

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