People
Creating Laws
Laws
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100

The president that hoped all Americans, black and white, would enjoy a peaceful and successful country.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

100

The first step in creating a new law is having one of these.

What is an idea?

100

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th amendment?

100

Not being able to pay money that is owed.

What is bankrupt?

100

This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

200

He created cartoons making fun of corrupt people.

Who was Thomas Nast?

200

When a president says no to a law.

What is veto?

200

Added to the constitution so that freedmen were given equal rights.

What are amendments?

200

Another word for dishonesty.

What is corruption?

200

A powerful organization that was supposed to help anyone who lost his home during the Civil War.

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

300

The first black American to be president of an American college.

Who was Daniel Payne?

300

Congress votes on one of these.

What is a bill?

300

This amendment said all people born in the United States were citizens.

What is the 14th amendment?

300

A period of ten years.

What is a decade?

300

Northerners who tried to get government jobs in the South.

Who are carpetbaggers?

400

He wrote a report on Reconstruction in the South.

Who was Carl Schurz?

400

How can a bill still become a law if the president vetoes it?

The Senate and the House must vote by 2/3 majority.

400

Gave all male citizens the right to vote.

What is the 15th amendment?

400

A group of people who live and work together and have similar cultures and beliefs.

What is society?

400

A system of growing crops in which farmers give a portion of their crops to the landowner.

Who were sharecroppers?

500

He tried to stop two Reconstruction bills from passing by vetoing them.

Who was Andrew Johnson?

500

After a bill passes the House of Representatives, what happens to it?

It goes to the Senate for a vote.

500

This law said the freedmen were free from unjust Southern laws.

What is the Civil Rights Bills?

500

The making of things or providing of services for the purpose of making money.

What is industry?

500

The period of time after the Civil War.

What is Reconstruction?