People
Terms
Groups
Grandfathers
Bad Laws
100

Shot Lincoln

John Wilks Booth

100

Bringing formal charges against public officials

Impeachment

100

A laborer that works the land for a shared portion of the value of the crop.

Sharecropper

100

A provision that allowed a person to avoid a literacy test if someone else in their family voted previously

Grandfather Clause

100

New laws created by southern states to control African Americans

Black Codes

200

The president after Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

200

A group pardon

Amnesty

200

Southern whites who opposed secession

Scalawag

200

Grandparents are generous! They make how many % of the nation’s cash contributions to nonprofit organizations?

45%

200

One of three states where it is illegal for almost all businesses to open on Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, most notably the big department and grocery stores

Maine, Arkansas, Indiana

300

A black man arrested which ultimately led to Jim Crow laws

Homer Plessy

300

A test to see if a person can read or write

Literacy Test

300

Northerners who went south to start businesses or pursue political office

Carpetbagger

300

How many million U.S. households are multigenerational?

6.2 Million

300

In what state that  professional sports teams are prohibited from playing games before 1 p.m. on a Sunday unless a local law or a local ordinance allows it 

Maryland

400

Created a plan where just 10 percent of the southern state’s population needed to sign a loyalty pledge to enter back into the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

400

Enforced separation of races

Segregation

400

Enslaved people who have been freed by the war

Freedman

400

Grandparents are intellectually curious. 71% say what is one of their favorite activities?

Reading

400

Which state has a "Day of Rest" statute that provides that all employees are entitled to one day off from work in seven calendar days 

Massachusetts

500

A black senator

Hiram Revels

500

A personal tax to be paid before voting

Poll Tax

500

What is the rarest blood type? 

A. O+ 

B. A- 

C. B+ 

D. AB-

AB-

500

Grandparent’s Day always falls on the Sunday after what day?

Labor Day

500

Which state prohibits singing of vain songs or tunes" on Sabbath.

New Jersey

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