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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Freed blacks marched past the homes of former prominent ___________ officials and through public squares.
(a) White.
(b) Army.
(c) Government.
(d) Black.

3. The __________ process helped to illuminate who the leaders were within black communities.
(a) Slave.
(b) Registration.
(c) Draft.
(d) Labor.

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

5. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.
(a) Willing and.
(b) More.
(c) Just as.
(d) Less.

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

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

8. By the summer of 1867, complaints about the armed ____________ of freed people grew in volume and scope.
(a) Militia.
(b) Organizations.
(c) Black Panthers.
(d) KKK.

9. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.
(a) Rumors.
(b) Laws.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Conventions.

10. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.
(a) Spoils.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Contraband.
(d) Victims.

11. "Black ________" effectively gave a separate legal and social status to blacks during this time.
(a) Codes.
(b) Rights.
(c) Movements.
(d) Laws.

12. Freedmen also resisted the threats of white _________, marched to the polls, and helped write new state constitutions.
(a) Senators.
(b) Bosses.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

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

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

15. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?
(a) Neither.
(b) Confederate.
(c) Both.
(d) Union.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mobility, craft skills, and literacy were all crucial components in the creation of political __________.

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

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

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

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