15, game topic

Question 1

Name the vocabulary term which meant Northern politicians who went to the South after the Civil War

Answer 1

carpetbaggers

Question 2

Name the man who shot Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 2

John Wilkes Booth

Question 3

Name Lincoln’s vice-president.

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson

Question 4

Name the vocabulary term which meant Southerners who had not taken part in the Civil war and who tried to help the North during reconstruction.

Answer 4

Scalawags

Question 5

What were the people called during Reconstruction who farmed other people’s lands, receiving a portion of what they produced

Answer 5

Sharecroppers

Question 6

Name the civil war general who became president after Andrew Johnson.

Answer 6

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 7

Name the woman who helped create the American Red Cross.

Answer 7

Clara Barton

Question 8

Name the city in which Lincoln was shot.

Answer 8

Washington D.C.

Question 9

What organization terrorized blacks, carpetbaggers, and scalawags in the South

Answer 9

KKK

Question 10

Name the vocabulary term which means using public office for illegal purpose

Answer 10

Corruption