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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Slaveholders and slaves believed the __________ party was hostile towards slavery.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Whip.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Republican.

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

4. Slave rebellions started with small scale departures for ___________ lines.
(a) Union.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Confederate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.

2. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?

3. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?

4. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.

5. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.

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