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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Few slaves knew how to ___________ before they entered the military.
(a) Read or write.
(b) Shoot a gun.
(c) March.
(d) Take orders.

3. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.
(a) Bounty hunter.
(b) Slave punishment.
(c) Fugitive slave.
(d) Freed slave.

4. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.
(a) Whites.
(b) Organizers.
(c) African Americans.
(d) Slaveowners.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some ___________ began pooling their resources in hopes of buying or leasing land that had been confiscated.

3. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.

4. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.

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

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