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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 8 Of Ballots and Biracialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Freed people played important roles in the early quests for land _______________.
(a) Reassignment.
(b) Purchases.
(c) Territories.
(d) Independence.

3. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.
(a) Cooperatives.
(b) Collectives.
(c) Work gangs.
(d) Plantations.

4. Leaders from the South joined with the __________ blacks to create a new political nation.
(a) Older.
(b) Younger.
(c) Northern.
(d) Southern.

5. Republicans never fully gained a large hold in the state of ___________ after the Civil War.
(a) Virginia.
(b) Maine.
(c) Texas.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization developed out of a network of organizations formed in the North during the Civil War?

2. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.

3. Slave rebellions started with small scale departures for ___________ lines.

4. Some black leaders, while sympathetic, were hesitant to support and to endorse ___________.

5. Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party.

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