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) Souther farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton
D) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) Sojourner Truth
B) Stephen Douglass
C) William Loyd Garrison
D) Fredrick Douglass
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) A train that took people from one end of the U.S. to another
B) A train that slaves rode when they wanted to go north
C) A series of escape routes and hiding places that brought slaves out of the South.
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 property and not a citizen
C) Dred Scott was no longer a slave
D) Dred Scott had to move west.
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) The Republican Party was created.
B) Lincoln was elected president
C) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
D) Stephen Douglass won the debates
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Indiana
B) Kansas
C) Illinois
D) Kentucky
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Massachusetts
B) South Carolina
C) Louisiana
D) Georgia
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
B) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
C) Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States.
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) Eli Whitney
B) Jefferson Davis
C) Jonh C. Calhoun
D) Abraham Lincoln
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