Chapter 22

Question 1

Mutual aid societies

Answer 1

benefit society or mutual aid society is an organization or voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, or insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.

Question 2

Confiscation

Answer 2

Th act of taking or seizing someone property

Question 3

Pocket veto

Answer 3

an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867

Question 5

Sharecropper

Answer 5

a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.

Question 7

Carpetbagger

Answer 7

a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

President that took over after Lincolns death

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

William Henry Seward was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and also served as Governor of New York and United States Senator.

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Civil Disabilities refers to a condition of a person who has had a legal right or privilege revoked as a result of a criminal conviction