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Quiz on Historical Terms and Events

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

carpetbagger

b)

fraud

c)

impeach

d)

scalawag

2.

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

a)

carpetbagger

b)

fraud

c)

impeach

d)

scalawag

3.

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

a)

carpetbagger

b)

fraud

c)

impeach

d)

scalawag

4.

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

a)

carpetbagger

b)

fraud

c)

segregate

d)

vigilante justice

5.

The act of cheating to gain something unlawfully is called:

a)

carpetbagger

b)

fraud

c)

impeach

d)

scalawag

6.

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:

a)

carpetbagger

b)

fraud

c)

vigilante justice

d)

scalawag

7.

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?

a)

True

b)

False

8.

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

a)

True

b)

False

9.

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

a)

True

b)

False

10.

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

a)

True

b)

False

11.

What outlawed slavery?

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Black Codes

d)

Freedman's Bureau

12.

What laws did Southern states pass that limited the rights of black Americans?

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Black Codes

d)

Freedman's Bureau

13.

What prevented states from denying black people the right to vote?

a)

Freedmen’s Bureau

b)

Fifteenth Amendment

c)

Black Codes

d)

None of the Above

14.

What laws did the Democrats pass during Reconstruction to segregate black people and discriminate against them?

a)

Fourteenth Amendment

b)

Fifteenth Amendment

c)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

d)

Jim Crow laws

15.

Tell me one of the two ways that a farmer could get land in the West.

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Purchase from Native Americans

c)

Land Lottery

d)

Sharecropping