People
Who tried to stop two Reconstruction bills from passing by vetoing them?
Andrew Johnson
Powerful organization that was supposed to help anyone who lost his home during the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
dishonesty
corruption
A bill is a law that is waiting to become official.
True
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
The Civil Rights Bill said that the ___________ were free from unjust Southern laws
freedmen
a period of ten years
decade
A bill becomes a law if both houses vote to support it.
False. It must go to the president next.
Who hoped that all Americans, black and white, would enjoy a peaceful and successful country?
Abraham Lincoln
a system of growing crops in which farmers give a portion of their crops to the landowner
sharecropping
to murder someone of political importance
assassinate
If the president approves the bill after it passes the Congress, then it becomes a law.
True
Who drew pictures making fun of corrupt people?
Thomas Nast
the making of things or providing of services for the purpose of making money
industry
a group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs
society
If the president vetoes the bill, then the bill is dead and it goes away and never becomes a law.
False. If the president vetoes the bill then it goes back to Congress to be voted on again.
Who was the first black American to be president of an American college?
Daniel Payne
not being able to pay money that is owed
bankrupt
________________ were Southerners who were disloyal to traditional values in the South. They tried to get government jobs in the South.
Scalawags
If two-thirds of Congress vote for the bill after the president vetoes it, it becomes a law anyway.
True. This is part of our checks and balances in our government. This is what ensures that our laws are as fair as possible because one entity should not be responsible for making laws.