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 a session (a president can pocket veto a bill within 10 days of a sessions end or after)

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

President during the Reconstruction who worked to help white supremacists in the South

Question 9

William Seeward

Answer 9

Secretary of State responsible for the Alaska Purchase

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions of a persons civil rights or liberties