Chap 22 Flashcards

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Mutual aid sociteis

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Non profit organizations designed to provide members with financial aid

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Confiscation

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Legal government seizure of private property

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3
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Pocket veto

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Presidential act of blocking a congressional lay passed law not by direct veto

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4
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Peonage

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A system in which debtors are held in servitude to labor for their creditors

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5
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Sharecropper

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Sprig cultural system in which a tenant receives land told and seed on credit

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6
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Scalawag

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Derogatory term for prop Union southerners whom southern democrats accused of laundering the resources

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Carpetbagger

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Derogatory term for pro Union southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south

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Terror

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Using violence of the threat of violence in order to create intense fear in the attempt to pro,one some political policy

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Treason

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The crime of betrayal of ones country, invoking over act of violations an oath of an alliance

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10
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Civil disabilities

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Legally imposed restrictions of a persons civil rights or liberties

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