WorksheetsQuiz on Historical Terms and Events
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
What outlawed slavery?
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Black Codes
Freedman's Bureau
What laws did Southern states pass that limited the rights of black Americans?
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Black Codes
Freedman's Bureau
What prevented states from denying black people the right to vote?
Freedmen’s Bureau
Fifteenth Amendment
Black Codes
None of the Above
What laws did the Democrats pass during Reconstruction to segregate black people and discriminate against them?
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Jim Crow laws
Tell me one of the two ways that a farmer could get land in the West.
Homestead Act
Purchase from Native Americans
Land Lottery
Sharecropping
