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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) Candidates.
(b) Voters.
(c) Actors.
(d) Presidents.

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

3. Congress finally moved to prohibit military personnel from ________ slaves to their owners.
(a) Introducing.
(b) Surrendering.
(c) Challenging.
(d) Selling.

4. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.
(a) White and black regiment.
(b) Confederate dissolution.
(c) Union spy team.
(d) Black regiment.

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

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

7. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.
(a) Slave owners.
(b) Church leaders.
(c) Freed people.
(d) Women.

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

9. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.
(a) In power.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Free.

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

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

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

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

14. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Whites.
(b) Young boys.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Slaveowners.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.

5. The Union League was formed to rally public support for ________ and the war effort.

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