Reconstruction of the South & the People of the West

Identify the following:

a Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War

• fraud

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

• muppet

Answer explanation

Identify the following:

to accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office

• fraud

• impeach

• segregate

• instill

Answer explanation

Identify the following:

a white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction

• scalawag

• vigilante justice

• carpetbagger

Answer explanation

Identify the following:

the act of cheating to gain something unlawfully

• segregate

• fraud

Identify the following:

to separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion

• segragate

• diverse

• split

Identify the following:

when a person takes the law into his own hands or is in agreement with someone taking the law into his own hands but has no legal authority to do so

• Batman

• scalawag

• vigilante justice

• the Joker

Answer explanation

Which group arose in the South after the Civil War and used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights.

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln's death?

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Collins

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Sorenson

Answer explanation

Often immigrants and black people worked for a living in the West and branded cows. What type of occupation did they have?

• cow branders

• cowboys

• sodbusters

The railroad played a large role in the settling of the West by bringing what group of people west?

• Democrats

• Republicans

• easterners

• southerners

Answer explanation