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) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
C) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
D) Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) Fredrick Douglass
B) Stephen Douglass
C) Sojourner Truth
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 had to move west.
B) Dred Scott was property and not a citizen
C) Dred Scott was free to live where he wanted.
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) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
D) Lincoln was elected president
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Kansas
B) Kentucky
C) Illinois
D) Indiana
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) South Carolina
B) Louisiana
C) Massachusetts
D) Georgia
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States.
B) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
C) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
D) Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
  • 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) Jefferson Davis
B) Jonh C. Calhoun
C) Eli Whitney
D) Abraham Lincoln
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