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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. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.
(a) Good behavior.
(b) Ritual gifting.
(c) Sexual favors.
(d) Marriage.

2. Almost universally, freed people believed that some __________ for the trials of slavery should occur.
(a) Punishment.
(b) Law changes.
(c) Compensation.
(d) Apology.

3. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.
(a) Political.
(b) Education.
(c) Voting.
(d) Labor.

4. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.
(a) Wages.
(b) Bribes.
(c) Pieces of land.
(d) Houses.

5. The newly freed blacks began to protest ___________ treatment during this time.
(a) Discriminatory.
(b) Past.
(c) Financial.
(d) Property.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?

2. Black ____________ also helped spread information and visions of the new nations as they made their way through the South.

3. Many of the early organizations founded by freed people were also bound together by ____________.

4. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.

5. Freed people played important roles in the early quests for land _______________.

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