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Question 1

Mutual aid societies:

Answer 1

nonprofit organizations designed to provide their members with financial and social benefits, often including medical aid, life insurance, funeral costs, and disaster relief

Question 2

Confiscation:

Answer 2

legal government seizure of private property without compensation

Question 3

Pocket veto:

Answer 3

the presidential act of blocking a congressionally passed law not by direct veto but by simply refusing to sign it at the end of a session

Question 4

Peonage:

Answer 4

a system in which debtors are held in servitude, to labor for their creditors

Question 5

Sharecropper:

Answer 5

an agricultural system in which a tenant receives land, tools, and seed on credit and pledges in return a share of the crop to the creditor

Question 6

Scalawag:

Answer 6

derogatory term for pro-Union southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south in collusion with republican governments after the civil war

Question 7

Carpetbagger:

Answer 7

derogatory term used by southern whites to describe northern businessmen and politicians who came to the south after the civil war to work on reconstruction projects or invest in southern infrastructure

Question 8

Andrew Johnson:

Answer 8

replacement for president for Lincoln, after his assassination, was a southerner who often went against congress and was considered to be in the wrong place at the wrong time

Question 9

William Seward:

Answer 9

Secretary of State, an ardent expansionist, signed a treaty with Russia that transferred Alaska to the United States for 7.2 million dollars

Question 10

Civil disabilities:

Answer 10

legally imposed restrictions of a persons civil rights or liberties