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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Voting.
(c) Equality.
(d) Turmoil.

8. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.
(a) Political.
(b) Equal.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Free.

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

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

11. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.
(a) Antebellum.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Abolition Movement.
(d) Rebellion.

12. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.
(a) Mobilizations.
(b) Finances.
(c) Protests.
(d) Churches.

13. The Friends of Universal ________ in Louisiana sought more radical reforms during this time.
(a) Suffrage.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Rights.
(d) Property.

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

15. The newly freed blacks began to protest ___________ treatment during this time.
(a) Discriminatory.
(b) Financial.
(c) Past.
(d) Property.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

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

3. The __________ process helped to illuminate who the leaders were within black communities.

4. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.

5. Congress gave the federal government the ability to restructure the ______________ states.

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