NAMES
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
People who were slaves but are now free
Who were the Freedmen
An infamous group that hurt freedmen
Who were the Ku Klux Klan
What is an abolitionist?
First step of creating a law
What is a bill
First African American President of a college.
Who is Daniel Payne.
Southerners called Northerners who tried to get jobs in the South.
Who were the carpetbaggers
What is the Reconstruction
Three main groups of Americans after the Civil War
Who were the Northerners, Southerners, Freedmen
2nd step to law making
Wrote a report on the REconstruction in the South?
Who is Carl Schurz
What is to secede
organization that helped anyone who lost their home during the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
To kill a politician.
What is to assassinate
3rd step
If both houses support the bill, it is sent to the President.
Who is President Johnson
Who were the scalawags.
14th amendment
What is equal rights to all citizens ( white or black)
The power of the president to stop a bill from becoming a law.
What is to veto
4th step
If president signs bill it becomes law- if he vetoes the bill it goes back to Congress.
Who is Thomas Nast
What is sharecropping
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
What is all male citizens ( Black or White) to vote.
5th step