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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. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Rights.
(c) Peace.
(d) Democracy.

2. Freed people played important roles in the early quests for land _______________.
(a) Reassignment.
(b) Independence.
(c) Purchases.
(d) Territories.

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

4. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.
(a) Antebellum.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Election.

5. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.
(a) Structure.
(b) Education.
(c) Organization.
(d) Manual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.

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

3. Black support fed on the ideologies and customers with _______________.

4. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.

5. By the summer of 1867, complaints about the armed ____________ of freed people grew in volume and scope.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were so many rumors about black uprisings and other troubles spreading so quickly at this time?

3. What happened to the right to vote of the black man during the time period of this particular book?

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

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

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

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

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

9. To where did some of the free people want to immigrate in order to return to their home countries?

10. What kind of account did Hahn come across, helping to inspire him to become interested in African American politics?

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