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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Few slaves knew how to ___________ before they entered the military.
(a) Take orders.
(b) Read or write.
(c) March.
(d) Shoot a gun.

2. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Abolition Movement.
(c) Antebellum.
(d) Civil War.

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

4. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

5. Many of the early organizations founded by freed people were also bound together by ____________.
(a) Slave owner.
(b) Location.
(c) Money.
(d) Kinship.

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

7. Black ____________ also helped spread information and visions of the new nations as they made their way through the South.
(a) Politicians.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Union soldiers.

8. The Union League was formed to rally public support for ________ and the war effort.
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) Robert E. Lee.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

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

11. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?
(a) Rural South.
(b) West Coast.
(c) Urban North.
(d) East Coast.

12. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?
(a) Voting laws.
(b) Separatism.
(c) Emigrationism.
(d) Self-help.

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

14. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.
(a) Bounty hunter.
(b) Fugitive slave.
(c) Slave punishment.
(d) Freed slave.

15. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.
(a) Victims.
(b) Contraband.
(c) Spoils.
(d) Prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.

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

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

4. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.

5. Black ___________ did less field labor after emancipation than they did under slavery.

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