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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.
(a) Houses.
(b) Bribes.
(c) Pieces of land.
(d) Wages.

2. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.
(a) Freedom.
(b) War.
(c) Emigration.
(d) Death.

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

4. Though many black men won seats of power, many eligible ________ voters refused to participate in elections.
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Women.
(d) Male.

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

6. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.
(a) Pamphlets.
(b) Laws.
(c) Rumors.
(d) Conventions.

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

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

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

10. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.
(a) Willing and.
(b) More.
(c) Less.
(d) Just as.

11. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.
(a) Pride.
(b) Community.
(c) Peace.
(d) Power.

12. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.
(a) In power.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Free.

13. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.
(a) Republican Party.
(b) Confederate Army.
(c) Democratic Party.
(d) Big House.

14. By the summer of 1867, complaints about the armed ____________ of freed people grew in volume and scope.
(a) Black Panthers.
(b) Militia.
(c) Organizations.
(d) KKK.

15. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.
(a) Jefferson.
(b) A black man.
(c) No one.
(d) Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.

2. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.

3. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.

4. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.

5. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.

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