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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

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

3. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Decreased.
(b) Was not measured.
(c) Stayed the same.
(d) Increased.

4. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.
(a) Lynchings.
(b) Solidarities.
(c) White groups.
(d) Voting rules.

5. Black ____________ also helped spread information and visions of the new nations as they made their way through the South.
(a) Slaves.
(b) Union soldiers.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Politicians.

6. The newly freed blacks began to protest ___________ treatment during this time.
(a) Discriminatory.
(b) Property.
(c) Past.
(d) Financial.

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

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

9. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Blacks.
(b) Young boys.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Whites.

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

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

12. Many of the early organizations founded by freed people were also bound together by ____________.
(a) Kinship.
(b) Slave owner.
(c) Money.
(d) Location.

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

14. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.
(a) Turmoil.
(b) Voting.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Equality.

15. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.
(a) White and black regiment.
(b) Confederate dissolution.
(c) Union spy team.
(d) Black regiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Military district commanders worked to educate and protect ______________, who did not understand the process or feared consequences.

2. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.

3. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.

4. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.

5. Freed men responded by ___________________ in large numbers and aligning themselves with the Republican Party.

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