Chapter 12 - Vocabulary Test

Question 1

Indirectly vetoing a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill

Answer 1

Pocket veto

Question 2

Persons freed from slavery

Answer 2

Freedmen

Question 3

Laws passed in the south just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African-American workers

Answer 3

Black Codes

Question 4

To formally charged a public official with misconduct in office

Answer 4

Impeach

Question 5

Name given to many northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans

Answer 5

Carpet bagger

Question 6

Name given to southerners who supported Republican reconstruction of the south

Answer 6

Scalawag

Question 7

The acquisition of money and dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician

Answer 7

Graft

Question 8

Federal tax on alcohol and tobacco

Answer 8

Sin tax

Question 9

Resides on the land owned by a landlord

Answer 9

Tenant farmer

Question 10

Farmer who works land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of crops

Answer 10

Sharecropper

Question 11

Merchant who provided sharecroppers with supplies on credit at high interest rates

Answer 11

Furnishing merchant

Question 12

Obligation placed on a farmer to repay a debt with crops

Answer 12

Crop lien

Question 13

Condition where sharecroppers who could not pay off their debt, could not leave the property they worked on

Answer 13

Debt peonage

Question 14

The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War

Answer 14

Reconstruction

Question 15

The act of granting a pardon to a large group of people

Answer 15

Amnesty

Question 16

Freed slaves

Answer 16

13th Amendment

Question 17

Gave slaves citizenship

Answer 17

14th Amendment

Question 18

Gave slaves voting rights

Answer 18

15th Amendment