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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 importance of leaders within the black community was apparent at the freed man's __________ throughout the South.
(a) Churches.
(b) Conventions.
(c) Plantations.
(d) Elections.

2. The rumors were able to spread because thousands of slaves were drawn to ____________ during the war.
(a) Prisons.
(b) Farms.
(c) Social sites.
(d) The draft.

3. Freedmen also resisted the threats of white _________, marched to the polls, and helped write new state constitutions.
(a) Senators.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Bosses.
(d) Democrats.

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

5. Black ___________ did less field labor after emancipation than they did under slavery.
(a) Men.
(b) Leaders.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. The newly freed blacks began to protest ___________ treatment during this time.

2. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.

3. Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party.

4. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the African American David Medlock help to organize in Texas?

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

3. What is so special about the rural areas in which the African Americans lived during the time period of this book?

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

5. What did the slaveholders and the slaves of the 1850s think about the Republican Party?

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

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

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

9. Why did the Union League spread rapidly through the plantation belt at the time?

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

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