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Civil War Chapter 5 Test
Contributed by: Crandall
  • 1. Why was slavery so important to many people in the South?
A) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
B) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
C) Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.
D) Souther farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) Fredrick Douglass
B) Stephen Douglass
C) William Loyd Garrison
D) Sojourner Truth
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) A train that took people from one end of the U.S. to another
B) A series of escape routes and hiding places that brought slaves out of the South.
C) An underground passage way used by slaves
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 was free to live where he wanted.
B) Dred Scott had to move west.
C) Dred Scott was no longer a slave
D) Dred Scott was property and not a citizen
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
B) Stephen Douglass won the debates
C) The Republican Party was created.
D) Lincoln was elected president
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Kansas
B) Indiana
C) Illinois
D) Kentucky
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Georgia
B) Massachusetts
C) South Carolina
D) Louisiana
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
B) Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States.
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) someone who joined the movement to end slavery
C) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
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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