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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.
(a) Black.
(b) Belittled.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Extraordinary.

2. The ____________ Freedman's Convention may have been the most visible organization of this time.
(a) Maine.
(b) Texas.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

4. Slaveholders and slaves believed the __________ party was hostile towards slavery.
(a) Republican.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Whip.
(d) Liberal.

5. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.
(a) Organization.
(b) Structure.
(c) Education.
(d) Manual.

6. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.
(a) White groups.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Solidarities.
(d) Voting rules.

7. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?
(a) Orange.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Rice.
(d) Sugar.

8. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.
(a) Religion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Joy.
(d) Passion.

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

10. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.
(a) Movements.
(b) Time periods.
(c) Events.
(d) Books.

11. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.
(a) Be free.
(b) Own land.
(c) Get married.
(d) Vote.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.

2. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.

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

4. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.

5. The delegates who gathered in state __________ that year were composed of both black and white men.

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