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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. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Rights.
(d) Peace.

2. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Blacks.
(b) Young boys.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Whites.

3. 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) Literature.
(d) Churches.

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

5. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.
(a) Power.
(b) Pride.
(c) Community.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leaders from the South joined with the __________ blacks to create a new political nation.

3. Congress finally moved to prohibit military personnel from ________ slaves to their owners.

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

5. The importance of leaders within the black community was apparent at the freed man's __________ throughout the South.

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