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

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

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

4. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.
(a) Abolition Movement.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Antebellum.
(d) Civil War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ called for the federal protection of slavery in the western territories.

2. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.

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

4. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

5. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Friends of Universal Suffrage want to attain with their organization?

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

3. What did the slaveholders begin to do in order to entice their slaves to stay on the farms to work?

4. What were some of the activities that slaves participated in which seemed to be threatening and rebellious?

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

6. Why are books which focus on shorter time periods of African American history not effective?

7. What happened as a result of the increased slave population before the Antebellum Period?

8. What are some of the plantations on which the slaves of the South used to work?

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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