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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was another problem slaves faced after they were freed?
(a) They had no land by which to supply their own needs.
(b) They contracted diseases from the North.
(c) They were not welcome in the North.
(d) They did not know how to live on their own.

2. What was President Lincoln's original reason for starting the Civil War?
(a) To teach the southern states not to rebel.
(b) To split the Union.
(c) To preserve the Union.
(d) To free the slaves.

3. What was one thing slave owners feared?
(a) That their slaves might run away.
(b) That their slaves might kill them.
(c) That their slaves might rebel.
(d) That their slaves would request freedom.

4. When did slaves begin freeing themselves?
(a) After all the southern states were under Union control.
(b) After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared.
(c) Right when the Civil War ended.
(d) When they heard a rumor that they were declared free.

5. What were house servants led to believe?
(a) That they must obey all that was told to them.
(b) That being a house servant was the greatest honor.
(c) That they must side with the other slaves and help them escape.
(d) That they must secretly spy on their masters in order to be able to create good escape plans.

6. What year did the Union army leave the South?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1876.

7. Why did some slave owners move to Texas?
(a) Gold was discovered in Texas.
(b) They were hoping to keep their slaves a bit longer.
(c) They were running away from the punishments set forth by Lincoln on slave owners.
(d) They had no reason to stay in the southern states with no slaves.

8. What was the slave called Paul known for?
(a) He organized an insurrection only to betray it, resulting in him becoming extremely hated by all his race.
(b) He was hit by the little Missy when trying to wake her up and almost choked her in retaliation.
(c) He was hiding in the swamp and ended up hanging himself with a bell around his neck.
(d) He hid out in the woods for several years before escaping to Mexico.

9. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?
(a) A disease.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Sickening.
(d) Rascality.

10. How was a slave identified?
(a) By his master's last name.
(b) By his master's first name.
(c) By his first name.
(d) By his number.

11. What did some of the slave owners do when freedom was declared?
(a) They did not tell their slaves they were free.
(b) They killed their slaves so they could not have freedom.
(c) They gave their slaves homes to live in.
(d) They paid their slaves before letting them go.

12. Who attempted to gain favor of his master by accomplishing satisfactory deeds in hopes of becoming a house servant?
(a) William Hayden.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Josiah Henson.
(d) West Turner.

13. Who was the slave who freed him/herself who said he/she had worked enough and "you can't make me work no more?"
(a) Beverly Jones.
(b) Solomon Northup.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Jennie Patterson.

14. After working for a "share" for a while, what ended up happening to many of the ex-slaves?
(a) They ran away.
(b) They were able to purchase their own land.
(c) They found that they were much happier.
(d) They found themselves in debt.

15. Who was the general of the Confederate Army?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) Samuel Cooper.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the group which argued for "forty acres and a mule" for every ex-slave?

2. What are the two ways that a man can be enslaved?

3. Who said, "Slavery was a bad thing and freedom of the kind we got with nothing to live on was bad."?

4. Why were Native African slaves more fortunate than slaves born into slavery?

5. Slavery was abolished but what was the new term for the new treatment of blacks?

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