Civil War Chapter 5 Test
  • 1. Why was slavery so important to many people in the South?
A) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
B) Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.
C) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
D) Souther farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) Stephen Douglass
B) Fredrick Douglass
C) William Loyd Garrison
D) Sojourner Truth
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) An underground passage way used by slaves
B) A series of escape routes and hiding places that brought slaves out of the South.
C) A train that slaves rode when they wanted to go north
D) A train that took people from one end of the U.S. to another
  • 4. What did the Supreme Court say about the Dred Scott case?
A) Dred Scott had to move west.
B) Dred Scott was free to live where he wanted.
C) Dred Scott was no longer a slave
D) Dred Scott was property and not a citizen
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) The Republican Party was created.
B) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
C) Stephen Douglass won the debates
D) Lincoln was elected president
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Kentucky
B) Illinois
C) Indiana
D) Kansas
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) South Carolina
B) Louisiana
C) Massachusetts
D) Georgia
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
B) Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States.
C) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
D) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
  • 9. What is discrimination?
A) someone who joined the movement to end slavery
B) the unfair treatment of particular groups.
C) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
D) to free
  • 10. Who invented the cotton gin?
A) Jonh C. Calhoun
B) Eli Whitney
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Jefferson Davis
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