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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) Farms.
(d) Social sites.

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

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

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

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

6. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.
(a) The children.
(b) The slaves.
(c) The women.
(d) The owners.

7. Black ___________ did less field labor after emancipation than they did under slavery.
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Black support fed on the ideologies and customers with _______________.
(a) Families.
(b) Churches.
(c) Black communities.
(d) Armies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.

2. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.

3. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.

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

5. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.

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