Civil War Chapter 5 Test
  • 1. Why was slavery so important to many people in the South?
A) Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.
B) Souther farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton
C) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
D) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) Stephen Douglass
B) Sojourner Truth
C) Fredrick Douglass
D) William Loyd Garrison
  • 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 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) Lincoln was elected president
C) Stephen Douglass won the debates
D) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Kansas
B) Kentucky
C) Indiana
D) Illinois
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) South Carolina
B) Georgia
C) Massachusetts
D) Louisiana
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
B) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
C) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
D) Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States.
  • 9. What is discrimination?
A) someone who joined the movement to end slavery
B) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
C) to free
D) the unfair treatment of particular groups.
  • 10. Who invented the cotton gin?
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Eli Whitney
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Jonh C. Calhoun
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