Quiz on Historical Terms and Events

To accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office is to:

• carpetbagger

• fraud

• impeach

• scalawag

A Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War is called a:

• carpetbagger

• fraud

• impeach

• scalawag

A white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction is known as a:

• carpetbagger

• fraud

• impeach

• scalawag

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

• carpetbagger

• fraud

• segregate

• vigilante justice

The act of cheating to gain something unlawfully is called:

• carpetbagger

• fraud

• impeach

• scalawag

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, it is called:

• carpetbagger

• fraud

• vigilante justice

• scalawag

A secret group called the Ku Klux Klan arose in the South after the Civil War and used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights. True or False?

• True

• False

After Abraham Lincoln died, his vice president Andrew Jackson became president. True or False?

• True

• False

The railroad played a large role in the settling of the West by bringing easterners west. True or False?

• True

• False

Conflict abounded in the West between ranchers and soldiers. True or False?

• True

• False