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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ____________ Freedman's Convention may have been the most visible organization of this time.
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maine.
(d) Texas.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.

2. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.

3. Congress gave the federal government the ability to restructure the ______________ states.

4. Many of the early organizations founded by freed people were also bound together by ____________.

5. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the freed men respond to the new extension of the right to vote?

2. What was happening in society, even before the presidential election began?

3. What was viewed as the best way to guarantee the freedom of the slaves?

4. What happened as a result of the Confederate government becoming more organized?

5. During the 1850s, what calls for political inclusion were largely ignored or rejected by society?

6. What did slaves believe was imminent because of the election of a certain president?

7. How did slaveholders begin to strike back at the prospect of millions of freed slaves?

8. Who was included in the processions of freed black slaves as they marched through town?

9. What did the contraband camps provide for the African American slaves once their freedom was emerging?

10. What are the two main ideas which Hahn's book seeks to suggest?

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