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Question 1

mutual aid societies

Answer 1

Non profit 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

Th presidential acts 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 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 agriculture

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

17th president, he was Lincoln’s Vice President, and replaced him

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

Secretary of State

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions of a person’s civil rights liberties