Ordeal Of Reconstruction Flashcards
(15 cards)
legally imposed restrictions of a person’s civil rights or liberties.
Civil disabilities
in accord with the exact letter of the law, sometimes with the intention of thwarting its broad intent.
Legalistically
nonprofit organizations designed to provide their members with financial and social benefits, often including medical aid, life insurance, funeral costs, and disaster relief.
Mutual aid societies
legal government seizure of private property without compensation.
Confiscation
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 ten days of a session’s end or after.)
Pocket veto
to enter into a contract by which one party gives another use of land, buildings, or other property for a fixed time and fee.
Lease
a group of prisoners chained together while engaged in forced labor.
Chain gang
an agricultural system in which a tenant receives land, tolls, and seed on credit and pledges in return a share of the crop to the creditor.
Sharecrop
a system in which debtors are held in servitude, to labor for their creditors.
Peonage
a white Southerner who supported Republican Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Scalawag
a Northern politician or businessman who came south to exploit the unsettled conditions after the Civil War; hence any politician who relocates for political advantage.
Carpetbagger
a major crime for which severe penalties are exacted under the law.
Felony
using violence or the threat of violence in order to create intense fear in the attempt to promote some political policy or objectives.
Terror
in the United States Senate, the officer who presides in the absence of the vice president
President Pro tempore
the crime of betrayal of one’s country, involving some overt act violating an oath of allegiance or providing illegal aid to a foreign state. In the US, treason is the only crime specified in the Constitution.
Treason
