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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. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.
(a) Willing and.
(b) Less.
(c) Just as.
(d) More.

2. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Increased.
(b) Decreased.
(c) Stayed the same.
(d) Was not measured.

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

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

5. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.
(a) Black Bend.
(b) Jefferson Village.
(c) Davis Bend.
(d) Mount Davis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Freedmen also resisted the threats of white _________, marched to the polls, and helped write new state constitutions.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are the two main ideas which Hahn's book seeks to suggest?

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

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

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

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