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