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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) Capitols.
(c) Board rooms.
(d) Farming communities.

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

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

4. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Increased.
(b) Stayed the same.
(c) Decreased.
(d) Was not measured.

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

6. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.
(a) Education.
(b) Voting.
(c) Political.
(d) Labor.

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

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

9. Leaders from the South joined with the __________ blacks to create a new political nation.
(a) Younger.
(b) Southern.
(c) Older.
(d) Northern.

10. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.
(a) Political.
(b) Ethnic.
(c) Marital.
(d) Civil.

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

12. Almost universally, freed people believed that some __________ for the trials of slavery should occur.
(a) Law changes.
(b) Apology.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Compensation.

13. Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party.
(a) Emigrating.
(b) Picketing.
(c) Registering to vote.
(d) Lynching.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.

2. Slaves in the South began to gain ________ for themselves as well as looser standards.

3. The League depended on a wider base of mobilization and involvement than ____________.

4. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?

5. What organization developed out of a network of organizations formed in the North during the Civil War?

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