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

2. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.
(a) Resistance.
(b) Employment.
(c) Population.
(d) Attacks.

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

4. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.
(a) Mobilizations.
(b) Finances.
(c) Churches.
(d) Protests.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.

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

3. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

4. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.

5. An aspect that has often been overlooked in the literature on slavery is ____________ between slaves.

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