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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The rumors were able to spread because thousands of slaves were drawn to ____________ during the war.
(a) Prisons.
(b) The draft.
(c) Social sites.
(d) Farms.

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

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

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

5. By drilling, marching, and posting sentinels, ___________ reminded each other of the risks they faced while offering protection.
(a) Young men.
(b) Freed people.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Women.

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) Conventions.
(b) Pamphlets.
(c) Rumors.
(d) Laws.

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

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

9. On July __________, millions of freed people claimed access to public space previously denied to them.
(a) 7th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 10th.

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

11. Mobility, craft skills, and literacy were all crucial components in the creation of political __________.
(a) Candidates.
(b) Actors.
(c) Presidents.
(d) Voters.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some called for a nation based on a concept of _______________ that was based on birth and loyalty, servitude, or other particularities.

2. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.

3. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.

4. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

5. The importance of leaders within the black community was apparent at the freed man's __________ throughout the South.

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