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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

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

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

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

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

7. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.
(a) Books.
(b) Time periods.
(c) Movements.
(d) Events.

8. Mass meetings and small gatherings proclaimed a new black __________ presence.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Political.
(c) Taxpayer.
(d) Community.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.
(a) Death.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Freedom.
(d) War.

15. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.
(a) Attacks.
(b) Population.
(c) Resistance.
(d) Employment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.

2. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.

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

4. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.

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

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