Chapter 22

Question 1

mutual aid societies

Answer 1

Nonprofit organizations designed to provide their members with financial and social benefits.

Question 2

confiscation

Answer 2

Legal government seizure of private property without compensation.

Question 3

pocket veto

Answer 3

The presidential law of blocking a congressionally passed law not by veto but by simply refusing to sign it at the end of a session.

Question 4

peonage

Answer 4

A system in which debtors are held in servitude, to labor for the creditors.

Question 5

sharecropper

Answer 5

An agricultural system in which a tenet receives land, seed, etc. in credit and pledges in return a share of the crop to the creditors.

Question 6

scalawag

Answer 6

Derogatory term for pro-Union southerners

Question 7

carpetbagger

Answer 7

Derogatory term used by white southerners to describe northerners who came to the south after the civil war to work on reconstruction.

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

He was Lincoln’s Vice President and he became president after Lincoln was assassinated. He was a democrat and almost got removed from office.

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

He was the Secretary of State who adamantly opposed slavery and was part of the Republican Party.

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions on a person’s civil rights or liberties.