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

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

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

4. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.
(a) Political.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Free.
(d) Equal.

5. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.
(a) Big House.
(b) Confederate Army.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.

3. What organization developed out of a network of organizations formed in the North during the Civil War?

4. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.

5. On July __________, millions of freed people claimed access to public space previously denied to them.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Hahn focus on the rural South within the course of this book?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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