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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The delegates who gathered in state __________ that year were composed of both black and white men.
(a) Parks.
(b) Board rooms.
(c) Farming communities.
(d) Capitols.

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

3. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Larger.
(b) Abandoned.
(c) Free.
(d) Burned down.

4. What organization developed out of a network of organizations formed in the North during the Civil War?
(a) NAACP.
(b) Union League.
(c) Suffragists United.
(d) National Civil Liberties Union.

5. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.
(a) Slaves.
(b) Owners.
(c) Elders.
(d) Ombudsmen.

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

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

8. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.
(a) Risk.
(b) Political movement.
(c) Collective.
(d) Secret.

9. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.
(a) Slave owners.
(b) Church leaders.
(c) Women.
(d) Freed people.

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

11. Freed blacks marched past the homes of former prominent ___________ officials and through public squares.
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Army.
(d) Government.

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

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

14. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Weak.
(d) Strong.

15. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.
(a) Slaveowners.
(b) African Americans.
(c) Whites.
(d) Organizers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black nuclear families of the time were family-based work ___________.

2. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.

3. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.

4. ___________ called for the federal protection of slavery in the western territories.

5. As the __________ government organized, opportunities increased for slaves to become better acquainted with each other and political events.

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