SS Weekly Week 29

Abraham Lincoln was killed by an actor named ___________.

• William Sherman

• John Wilkes Booth

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant was the commanding general for the _______.

• North

• South

• East

• West

__________ __________ became President of the United States after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William Sherman

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Johnson

The Confederacy surrendered at _________ ________.

• White House

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Lincoln Memorial

• Ford's Theater

A sharecropper is a person who __________________.

• rents part of the land and pays with part of the crops each year.

• shares the living space of the land's owner.

• is forced to work in the fields with no pay.

• watches other people share pieces of the land and crops.

What are the "Black Codes"?

• Laws that stated that black people had to try and break the code to enter a building.

• Laws that stated that black people who did not have jobs had to help rebuild the South.

• Laws that stated that black people that did not have jobs could be forced to work on farms and plantations.

• Laws that stated that black people had to read the book of codes to get a job.

Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and ______ ______ all thought that in order to win the war, destruction would have to be inflicted on the South.

• Robert E. Lee

• William T. Sherman

• Andrew Johnson

• John Wilkes Booth

During the Civil War, one in _____ Southern men died.

• four

• five

• six

• seven

As a result of all the destruction in the South, the war had left many cities, roads, ________, and homes in ruins.

• raisins

• rabbits

• roses

• railroads

General William T. Sherman was another general in the _________ Army.

• Union

• Confederate

• British

• Spanish