Chapter 22

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 the session. (A president can pocket veto a bill within ten days of a session’s end or after.)

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Sharecroppers

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 Democrats accused of plundering the resources of the South in collusion with Republican governments after the Civil War.

Question 7

Carpetbaggers

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

Civil Disabilities

Answer 8

Legally imposed restrictions of a person’s civil rights or liberties.