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Which word means to accuse a public official of a wrongdoing while in office?
a) segregation
b) impeachment
c) fraud
d) vigilance

What was a Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War?
a) scalawag
b) carpetbagger
c) freedman
d) sharecropper

Who was a scalawag?
a) Southerner who sided with the North
b) Former slave who now worked for the North
c) Blockade runner
d) member of a secret Southern organization

What is fraud?
a) trying to stop someone from voting
b) cheating or trying to gain something unlawfully
c) blocking ships from harbors
d) supporting a cause that has no hope of success

Vigilante justice involves
a) separating blacks from whites in public places
b) establishing northern businesses in the South
c) imposing a tax on black voters
d) taking the law into one's own hands without any legal authority to do so

What is segregation?
a) removing a President from office
b) requiring a literacy test to qualify as a voter
c) separating blacks from whites in society
d) imposing high taxes on Southern plantations

What secret group in the South used violence to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights?
a) Ku Klux Klan
b) Freedman's Bureau
c) Jim Crow Society
d) Daughters of the American Revolution

Who was Lincoln's vice president?
a) Jefferson Davis
b) Stephen Douglas
c) Andrew Johnson
d) Ulysses S. Grant

What was a sodbuster?
a) a cowboy
b) a settler
c) a rancher
d) a government official

In what battle did General Custer and his men get killed fighting Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
a) Battle of the Alamo
b) Battle of Bunker Hill
c) Battle of LIttle Big Horn
d) Battle of Antietam

Which two groups often struggled with one another in the West?
a) ranchers and farmers
b) farmers and sodbusters
c) ranchers and cowboys
d) cowboys and railroad companies

What helped populate the West?
a) boats
b) horses
c) covered wagons
d) railroads

What is the 13th amendment?
a) abolishes slavery
b) gave civil rights to all people born in the US
c) gave black men the right to vote
d) gave women the right to vote

What group helped struggling freed slaves and poor whites after the Civil War?
a) Ku Klux Klan
b) Freedman's Bureau
c) Salvation Army
d) Red Cross

What laws limited what blacks could do in the South?
a) 13th amendment
b) Bill of Rights
c) Black Codes
d) Ten Commandments

Which group of laws tried to discriminate against blacks?
a) Bill of Rights
b) Jim Crow laws
c) Reconstruction Act of 1867
d) 14th amendment

Which amendment supported civil rights (rights of a citizen)?
a) 13th
b) 14th
c) 15th
d) 16th

Which amendment gave the right to vote to black men?
a) 12th
b) 13th
c) 14th
d) 15th

What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
a) Gave the military authority to control states that had seceded from the Union
b) Gave the South the right to govern itself
c) Gave the North the right to move south and take over all businesses
d) Removed Jefferson Davis from office

Which group of people were hurt greatly from the westward expansion?
a) Native Americans
b) Southerners
c) Immigrants
d) Cowboys

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