People
The president that hoped all Americans, black and white, would enjoy a peaceful and successful country.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The first step in creating a new law is having one of these.
What is an idea?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
Not being able to pay money that is owed.
What is bankrupt?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
He created cartoons making fun of corrupt people.
Who was Thomas Nast?
When a president says no to a law.
What is veto?
Added to the constitution so that freedmen were given equal rights.
What are amendments?
Another word for dishonesty.
What is corruption?
A powerful organization that was supposed to help anyone who lost his home during the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
The first black American to be president of an American college.
Who was Daniel Payne?
Congress votes on one of these.
What is a bill?
This amendment said all people born in the United States were citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
A period of ten years.
What is a decade?
Northerners who tried to get government jobs in the South.
Who are carpetbaggers?
He wrote a report on Reconstruction in the South.
Who was Carl Schurz?
How can a bill still become a law if the president vetoes it?
The Senate and the House must vote by 2/3 majority.
Gave all male citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
A group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs.
What is society?
A system of growing crops in which farmers give a portion of their crops to the landowner.
Who were sharecroppers?
He tried to stop two Reconstruction bills from passing by vetoing them.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
After a bill passes the House of Representatives, what happens to it?
It goes to the Senate for a vote.
This law said the freedmen were free from unjust Southern laws.
What is the Civil Rights Bills?
The making of things or providing of services for the purpose of making money.
What is industry?
The period of time after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?