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