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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) 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) William Loyd Garrison
B) Sojourner Truth
C) Stephen Douglass
D) Fredrick Douglass
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) A train that slaves rode when they wanted to go north
B) A train that took people from one end of the U.S. to another
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 property and not a citizen
B) Dred Scott had to move west.
C) Dred Scott was no longer a slave
D) Dred Scott was free to live where he wanted.
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
B) The Republican Party was created.
C) Lincoln was elected president
D) Stephen Douglass won the debates
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Illinois
B) Kansas
C) Kentucky
D) Indiana
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Louisiana
B) South Carolina
C) Georgia
D) Massachusetts
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
B) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
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) 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) Eli Whitney
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Jefferson Davis
D) Jonh C. Calhoun
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