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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 ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.
(a) Slave owners.
(b) Freed people.
(c) Church leaders.
(d) Women.

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

3. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.
(a) Lynchings.
(b) White groups.
(c) Solidarities.
(d) Voting rules.

4. Congress gave the federal government the ability to restructure the ______________ states.
(a) Union.
(b) Slave owner.
(c) Western.
(d) Confederate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leaders from the South joined with the __________ blacks to create a new political nation.

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. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?

5. By drilling, marching, and posting sentinels, ___________ reminded each other of the risks they faced while offering protection.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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