A veto applied when the chief executive does not formally accept of reject a bill within the time allowed.
A Pocket Veto.
100
System of farming in which a person rents the land of another.
Tenant Farming.
100
A system of farming where a farmer tends some portion of a planter's land and receives a share of the harvest.
Sharecropping
100
The public property and services that a society uses.
Infrastructure
200
To charge a public official with wrongdoing in office.
Impeach
200
This man ran against Rutherford B Hayes during the Presidential election of 1876.
Samuel Tilden
200
This man ran against Ulysses S Grant during the Presidential Election of 1868.
Horatio Seymour
200
This man was a ruthless Confederate General who ordered the execution of 300 African American men, women and children during the Civil war. He was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
200
This was a negative nickname given to Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the Civil War.
Carpetbaggers.
300
This was a negative term used to describe white southern republicans and those that opposed secession.
Scalawag.
300
These were laws designed to restrict the rights of the freedmen.
Black codes.
300
This man was the first African American Governor elected in United States History. He Governed Louisiana beginning in 1872.
PBS Pinchback
300
What was the name of the act in 1863 that gave away 100 million dollars worth of Southern lands.
Abandoned Property Act of 1863.
300
This group of politicians favored a "Punish" approach when it came to reconstruction policies.
Radical Republicans.
400
This act passed in 1866 was vetoed by President Johnson as he had no mandate to conform to Republican desires.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866.
400
This Amendment States that the states shall not abridge the rights of those born within the United States.
14th Amendment.
400
Who did President Johnson attempt to remove from his cabinet? This action would eventually lead to his impeachment.
Edwin Stanton-Sec. of War.
400
What percentage of Senators must vote "Yes" in order to remove an impeached President from office?
2/3.
400
What was the name of the company that President Grant was linked to that was accused of corruption and skimming funds from contracts to complete the Union Pacific Railroad?
Credit Mobilier.
500
As part of the Reconstruction Act passed by congress, the South was divided into how many regions that would be supervised by Union military leaders?
Five.
500
This Act passed in 1870 was a Federal response to the KKK and their efforts to prevent Freedmen from voting.
Enforcement Act of 1870.
500
Democrats in the South bonded together to form the _______. They worked of block and revise the efforts of reconstruction.
The Solid South.
500
Who won the popular vote during the Presidential Election of 1876, but did not win the Office of President?
Samuel Tilden
500
How did congress fund most of the reconstruction efforts?