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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.
(a) Conventions.
(b) Laws.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Rumors.

4. Black nuclear families of the time were family-based work ___________.
(a) Gangs.
(b) Situations.
(c) Unions.
(d) Guilds.

5. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Good behavior.
(c) Ritual gifting.
(d) Sexual favors.

6. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.
(a) Plantations.
(b) Work gangs.
(c) Cooperatives.
(d) Collectives.

7. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.
(a) Fugitive slave.
(b) Slave punishment.
(c) Freed slave.
(d) Bounty hunter.

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

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

10. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?
(a) East Coast.
(b) West Coast.
(c) Rural South.
(d) Urban North.

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

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

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

14. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.
(a) Big House.
(b) Confederate Army.
(c) Democratic Party.
(d) Republican Party.

15. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.
(a) Victims.
(b) Spoils.
(c) Prisoners.
(d) Contraband.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.

3. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.

4. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.

5. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?

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