Chapter 22

Question 1

Mutual aid societies

Answer 1

Nonprofit organizations designed to provide members with social and financial benefits

Question 2

Confiscation

Answer 2

Legal government seizure of property without compensation

Question 3

Pocket veto

Answer 3

Presidential act of blocking a passed law by refusing to sign at end of session

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

System where debtors are held to labor for their creditors

Question 5

Sharecropper

Answer 5

System where a tenant receives land, tools, and seeds on credit in return a share of crop is given to them

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

Term for pro Union southerners

Question 7

Carpetbaggers

Answer 7

Term to describe northern businessmen who came to south after civil war for work

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

Took over after Lincoln was killed

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

Signed a treaty w Russia that gave us Alaska

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions of persons rights or liberties