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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Rural freed people did not need outsiders to nurture their desire for the _________ they had been cultivating.
(a) Land.
(b) Money.
(c) Homes.
(d) Power.

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

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

6. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.
(a) Union spy team.
(b) Black regiment.
(c) Confederate dissolution.
(d) White and black regiment.

7. As the __________ government organized, opportunities increased for slaves to become better acquainted with each other and political events.
(a) Republican.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) Confederate.
(d) Union.

8. The League depended on a wider base of mobilization and involvement than ____________.
(a) Money.
(b) Society.
(c) Membership.
(d) Laws.

9. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Slaveowners.
(b) Young boys.
(c) Whites.
(d) Blacks.

10. Slaves in the South began to gain ________ for themselves as well as looser standards.
(a) Money.
(b) Property.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Free time.

11. 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.

12. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.
(a) Battered.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Workers.
(d) Ignored.

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

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

15. ___________ called for the federal protection of slavery in the western territories.
(a) Republicans.
(b) All whites.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Slave holders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Freed blacks marched past the homes of former prominent ___________ officials and through public squares.

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

4. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.

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

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