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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. Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party.
(a) Emigrating.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Registering to vote.
(d) Picketing.

2. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Battered.
(c) Workers.
(d) Slaves.

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

4. David Medlock was an African American leader in the state of _____________.
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Texas.

5. Though many black men won seats of power, many eligible ________ voters refused to participate in elections.
(a) White.
(b) Male.
(c) Women.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.

2. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.

3. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

4. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.

5. Mobility, craft skills, and literacy were all crucial components in the creation of political __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why are books which focus on shorter time periods of African American history not effective?

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

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

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

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

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

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