People
Vocab
Vocab 2
Potpourri
100

This president hoped that all Americans, would enjoy a peaceful and successful country?

Who is Abraham Lincoln? 

100

This was the name of Northerners who tried to get government jobs in the South. 

What is carpetbagger?

100

This word means rebuilding. 

What is Reconstruction?

100

Colleges were this during the Civil War. 

What is closed?

200

He assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

200

This was the name for Southerners who worked with Northerners. 

What is scalawags?

200

This word means dishonesty. 

What is corruption?

200

This president tried to stop two Reconstruction bills by vetoing them. 

Who was Andrew Johnson?

300

He was the first black American to be president of an American college?

Who is Daniel Payne?

300

This system had people growing crops and giving a portion of their crops to the landowner as well as paying back debt. 

What is sharecropping?

300

This is a period of 10 years. 

What is a decade?

300

This bill said that freedmen were free from unjust Southern laws. 

What is the Civil Rights Bill?

400

This person drew pictures making fun of corrupt people. 

Who is Thomas Nast?

400

This is the name for a group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs. 

What is a society?

400

This is the word that means to murder someone of political importance. 

What is assassinate?

400

This was the name of former slaves. 

What is freedmen?

500

He wrote a report on Reconstruction in the South. 

Who is Carl Schurz?

500

This is the making of things or providing of services to make money. 

What is industry?

500
This is the word that means not being able to pay money that is owed. 

What is bankrupt?

500

This was the organization that was supposed to help anyone who lost their home during the Civil War. 

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

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