Ch 22 Us History

Question 1

mutual aid societies

Answer 1

A 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

the action of taking or seizing someone’s property with authority

Question 3

pocket veto

Answer 3

legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action (instead of affirmatively vetoing it).

Question 4

peonage

Answer 4

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 system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.

Question 6

scalawag

Answer 6

Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War.

Question 7

carpetbagger

Answer 7

In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War, during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877). White Southerners denounced them fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South.

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

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