Chap 22 Flashcards
Mutual aid sociteis
Non profit organizations designed to provide members with financial aid
Confiscation
Legal government seizure of private property
Pocket veto
Presidential act of blocking a congressional lay passed law not by direct veto
Peonage
A system in which debtors are held in servitude to labor for their creditors
Sharecropper
Sprig cultural system in which a tenant receives land told and seed on credit
Scalawag
Derogatory term for prop Union southerners whom southern democrats accused of laundering the resources
Carpetbagger
Derogatory term for pro Union southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south
Terror
Using violence of the threat of violence in order to create intense fear in the attempt to pro,one some political policy
Treason
The crime of betrayal of ones country, invoking over act of violations an oath of an alliance
Civil disabilities
Legally imposed restrictions of a persons civil rights or liberties