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