Civil War
The year the Civil War Ended
1865
Drew pictures making fun of corrupt people.
Thomas Nast
System of growing crops in which farmers give a portion of their crops to the landowner.
Sharecropping
Blamed for Abraham Lincoln's Death.
Southern
A period of 10 years
Decade
Was assassinated near the end of the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Hoped that all Americans would enjoy a peaceful and successful country.
Abraham Lincoln
Northerners who tried to get government Jobs in the South.
Carpetbaggers
Believed the leaders of the confederacy should be punished for fighting against the Union.
Northerners
a group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs.
To accept a gift of money or favor to cause someone to make a decision.
Bribe
First black American to be president of a College.
Daniel Payne
These places of higher learning were closed during the civil war.
Colleges.
Did not know about the new southern laws at first.
Northerners
making of things or providing of services for the purpose of making money.
Industry
Dishonesty
Corruption
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
This Bill said that the freedmen were free from unjust southern laws.
Were promised land and a mule.
Freedmen
Wanted to be in charge of Reconstruction after things were not going well in the South.
Congress
Wrote the report on the Reconstruction in the South.
Carl Schurz
Freedmen Bureau.
Hoped to rebuild the South as in had been before the war.
Southerners
To murder someone of political importance