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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.
(a) Protests.
(b) Churches.
(c) Mobilizations.
(d) Finances.

2. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?
(a) Both.
(b) Neither.
(c) Union.
(d) Confederate.

3. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.
(a) Financial.
(b) Land ownership.
(c) Business.
(d) Political.

4. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.
(a) Election.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Antebellum.
(d) Emancipation.

5. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.
(a) Mount Davis.
(b) Black Bend.
(c) Jefferson Village.
(d) Davis Bend.

6. Military district commanders worked to educate and protect ______________, who did not understand the process or feared consequences.
(a) People in power.
(b) Freed men.
(c) Each other.
(d) Women and children.

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

8. "Black ________" effectively gave a separate legal and social status to blacks during this time.
(a) Movements.
(b) Codes.
(c) Rights.
(d) Laws.

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

10. Slave rebellions started with small scale departures for ___________ lines.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Union.
(c) Republican.
(d) Confederate.

11. Freedmen also resisted the threats of white _________, marched to the polls, and helped write new state constitutions.
(a) Republicans.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Senators.
(d) Bosses.

12. The __________ process helped to illuminate who the leaders were within black communities.
(a) Draft.
(b) Registration.
(c) Labor.
(d) Slave.

13. David Medlock was an African American leader in the state of _____________.
(a) Texas.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

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

15. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.
(a) Turmoil.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Voting.
(d) Equality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?

3. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.

4. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.

5. The Union League was formed to rally public support for ________ and the war effort.

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