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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The delegates who gathered in state __________ that year were composed of both black and white men.
(a) Farming communities.
(b) Capitols.
(c) Parks.
(d) Board rooms.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?
(a) Neither.
(b) Both.
(c) Union.
(d) Confederate.

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

10. Freed people played important roles in the early quests for land _______________.
(a) Purchases.
(b) Reassignment.
(c) Territories.
(d) Independence.

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

12. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.
(a) Jefferson Village.
(b) Mount Davis.
(c) Black Bend.
(d) Davis Bend.

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

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

15. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.
(a) Secret.
(b) Risk.
(c) Collective.
(d) Political movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.

2. Black support fed on the ideologies and customers with _______________.

3. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.

4. By the summer of 1867, complaints about the armed ____________ of freed people grew in volume and scope.

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

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