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) Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.
C) The government wanted enslaved people to pay taxes
D) Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines
  • 2. Which person was NOT and abolitionist?
A) William Loyd Garrison
B) Sojourner Truth
C) Fredrick Douglass
D) Stephen Douglass
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) A train that slaves rode when they wanted to go north
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 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 no longer a slave
B) Dred Scott had to move west.
C) Dred Scott was free to live where he wanted.
D) Dred Scott was property and not a citizen
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
B) Lincoln was elected president
C) The Republican Party was created.
D) Stephen Douglass won the debates
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Indiana
B) Kentucky
C) Kansas
D) Illinois
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Massachusetts
B) Georgia
C) Louisiana
D) South Carolina
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
B) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
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) the unfair treatment of particular groups.
B) to free
C) someone who joined the movement to end slavery
D) loyalty to one's own section of the country.
  • 10. Who invented the cotton gin?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Jonh C. Calhoun
C) Eli Whitney
D) Jefferson Davis
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