Reconstruction

4. crops that sharecroppers could use to cover debts
6. vetoing a bill by letting a session of congress expire without signing the bill
7. group of government officials and distillers that cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports
11. Candidate for the liberal republican party
13. helped freed slaves and wa refugees
14. gave any citizen the right to vote
16. farmers that paid rent for the land they farmed
17. to formally charge with high crimes or misdemeanors
18. a pardon

1. Granted citizenship to all citizens born in the U.S.
2. Republicans who wanted the federal government to punish the south
3. laws that limited African american rights
4. Northerners that moved to the south
5. taxes that helped the government pay off the bonds that had been issued to pay for the civil war
8. farmers that paid rent with a share of their crops
9. gaining money illegally through politics
10. a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work
12. a group of white southerners who used violence to prevent African Americans from achieving equality
15. white southerners who worked with republicans and supported reconstruction