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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.
(a) Less.
(b) More.
(c) Willing and.
(d) Just as.

2. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.
(a) Economic.
(b) Nativist.
(c) Immigrant.
(d) Westward.

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

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

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

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

7. An aspect that has often been overlooked in the literature on slavery is ____________ between slaves.
(a) Committments.
(b) Dispute resolution.
(c) Infighting.
(d) Exchanges.

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

9. Congress gave the federal government the ability to restructure the ______________ states.
(a) Confederate.
(b) Slave owner.
(c) Union.
(d) Western.

10. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.
(a) Anger.
(b) Religion.
(c) Passion.
(d) Joy.

11. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Abandoned.
(b) Burned down.
(c) Larger.
(d) Free.

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

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

14. 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.

15. On July __________, millions of freed people claimed access to public space previously denied to them.
(a) 10th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 14th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freedmen also resisted the threats of white _________, marched to the polls, and helped write new state constitutions.

2. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.

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

4. The delegates who gathered in state __________ that year were composed of both black and white men.

5. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.

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