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Drew pictures making fun of corrupt people.
Thomas Nast
Tried to stop two Reconstruction bills from passing by vetoing them.
Andrew Johnson
Making of things or providing services for the purpose of making money.
Industry
This educational system remained closed during the Civil War, but reopened during Reconstruction thanks to churches.
Colleges
Not being able to pay money that is owed.
Bankrupt
Hoped that all Americans would enjoy a peaceful and successful country.
Abraham Lincoln
Northerners who tried to get jobs in the South.
Carpetbaggers
dishonesty
corruption
A system of growing crops in which farmers give a portion of their crops to the landowner.
Sharecropping
Presidential power to say a law cannot be passed.
Veto
First black American to be a president of an American college.
Daniel Payne
Southerners who sided with the North.
Scalawags
Group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs.
Society
Who took over control of Reconstruction?
Congress
Has the right to override a veto with a 2/3 vote.
Congress
Assassinated Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Slaves who were now freed.
Freedmen
Murder someone of political importance.
Assassinate.
Their master's church
The bill has to be written by a local representative.
Wrote a report on Reconstruction in the South. (Spied on the South and reported to the North.)
Carl Shurz
Powerful organization that helped anyone who lost their home during the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
Period of ten years.
Decade
After the Civil War, black people began their own...
churches
For a bill to be passed into law, it has to be presented to Congress, then passed along to the...
President