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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 League depended on a wider base of mobilization and involvement than ____________.
(a) Membership.
(b) Money.
(c) Laws.
(d) Society.

2. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Power.
(c) Pride.
(d) Community.

3. Some called for a nation based on a concept of _______________ that was based on birth and loyalty, servitude, or other particularities.
(a) Trust.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Voting.
(d) Government.

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

5. Rural freed people did not need outsiders to nurture their desire for the _________ they had been cultivating.
(a) Homes.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Land.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Congress finally moved to prohibit military personnel from ________ slaves to their owners.

3. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.

4. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

5. The rumors were able to spread because thousands of slaves were drawn to ____________ during the war.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Hahn focus on the rural South within the course of this book?

4. What did Congress allow the federal government to do during the time of the reconstruction?

5. Who were typically leading the freedom movements to secure the right to vote for the African American man?

6. What happened when leaders of the South joined with Northern blacks?

7. What happened on July fourth of 1865 which had not happened in years?

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

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

10. By the mid nineteenth century, how did the slaves of the South begin to change the slave-master relationship?

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