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) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
C) Souther farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton
D) Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) Stephen Douglass
B) William Loyd Garrison
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Fredrick Douglass
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) A train that slaves rode when they wanted to go north
B) An underground passage way used by slaves
C) A train that took people from one end of the U.S. to another
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 was free to live where he wanted.
C) Dred Scott had to move west.
D) Dred Scott was no longer a slave
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) Stephen Douglass won the debates
B) The Republican Party was created.
C) Lincoln was elected president
D) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Illinois
B) Kentucky
C) Indiana
D) Kansas
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Louisiana
B) Georgia
C) Massachusetts
D) South Carolina
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
B) Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
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) to free
C) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
D) the unfair treatment of particular groups.
  • 10. Who invented the cotton gin?
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Jonh C. Calhoun
D) Eli Whitney
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