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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Of Chains and Threads.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.
(a) Education.
(b) Voting.
(c) Labor.
(d) Political.

2. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.
(a) Secret.
(b) Risk.
(c) Political movement.
(d) Collective.

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

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

5. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?
(a) Separatism.
(b) Self-help.
(c) Emigrationism.
(d) Voting laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.

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

3. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.

4. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?

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

(see the answer key)

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