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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. The importance of leaders within the black community was apparent at the freed man's __________ throughout the South.
(a) Churches.
(b) Elections.
(c) Conventions.
(d) Plantations.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

2. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?

3. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.

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

5. Military district commanders worked to educate and protect ______________, who did not understand the process or feared consequences.

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