Civil War Chapter 5 Test
  • 1. Why was slavery so important to many people in the South?
A) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
B) Souther farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton
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) William Loyd Garrison
B) Stephen Douglass
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Fredrick Douglass
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) An underground passage way used by slaves
B) A series of escape routes and hiding places that brought slaves out of the South.
C) A train that slaves rode when they wanted to go north
D) A train that took people from one end of the U.S. to another
  • 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) Lincoln was elected president
B) The Republican Party was created.
C) Stephen Douglass won the debates
D) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Illinois
B) Indiana
C) Kansas
D) Kentucky
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Louisiana
B) Massachusetts
C) Georgia
D) South Carolina
  • 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) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
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) the unfair treatment of particular groups.
D) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
  • 10. Who invented the cotton gin?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Eli Whitney
C) Jonh C. Calhoun
D) Jefferson Davis
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