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) Fredrick Douglass
B) Stephen Douglass
C) Sojourner Truth
D) William Loyd Garrison
  • 3. What was the Underground Railroad?
A) A series of escape routes and hiding places that brought slaves out of the South.
B) An underground passage way used by slaves
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 property and not a citizen
B) Dred Scott was free to live where he wanted.
C) Dred Scott had to move west.
D) Dred Scott was no longer a slave
  • 5. What event began the Civil War?
A) Stephen Douglass won the debates
B) Lincoln was elected president
C) The Republican Party was created.
D) The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln was born in_________
A) Indiana
B) Kansas
C) Kentucky
D) Illinois
  • 7. Which state was NOT one of the states that left the Union?
A) Georgia
B) Massachusetts
C) Louisiana
D) South Carolina
  • 8. What was one result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
A) Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States.
B) Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
C) Slavery became even more important to the South's economy.
D) John C. Calhoun became president of the United States of America
  • 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) Eli Whitney
B) Jonh C. Calhoun
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Jefferson Davis
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