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) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
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) Fredrick Douglass
B) Sojourner Truth
C) Stephen Douglass
D) William Loyd Garrison
  • 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 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) Stephen Douglass won the debates
B) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
C) Lincoln was elected president
D) The Republican Party was created.
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Indiana
B) Kentucky
C) Kansas
D) Illinois
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Louisiana
B) Massachusetts
C) South Carolina
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) 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) to free
B) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
C) someone who joined the movement to end slavery
D) the unfair treatment of particular groups.
  • 10. Who invented the cotton gin?
A) Jonh C. Calhoun
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Eli Whitney
D) Jefferson Davis
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