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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Burned down.
(b) Free.
(c) Abandoned.
(d) Larger.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Few slaves knew how to ___________ before they entered the military.

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

3. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.

4. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.

5. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so special about the rural areas in which the African Americans lived during the time period of this book?

2. What happened on July fourth of 1865 which had not happened in years?

3. How did slaveholders begin to strike back at the prospect of millions of freed slaves?

4. Who were typically leading the freedom movements to secure the right to vote for the African American man?

5. Why does Hahn focus on the rural South within the course of this book?

6. What did the Friends of Universal Suffrage want to attain with their organization?

7. To where did some of the free people want to immigrate in order to return to their home countries?

8. What happened to the right to vote of the black man during the time period of this particular book?

9. What are the two main ideas which Hahn's book seeks to suggest?

10. What did the slaveholders and the slaves of the 1850s think about the Republican Party?

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