Chapter 22 Flashcards
Mutual aid societies
Nonprofit organizations designed to provide members with social and financial benefits
Confiscation
Legal government seizure of property without compensation
Pocket veto
Presidential act of blocking a passed law by refusing to sign at end of session
Peonage
System where debtors are held to labor for their creditors
Sharecropper
System where a tenant receives land, tools, and seeds on credit in return a share of crop is given to them
Scalawag
Term for pro Union southerners
Carpetbaggers
Term to describe northern businessmen who came to south after civil war for work
Andrew Johnson
Took over after Lincoln was killed
William Seward
Signed a treaty w Russia that gave us Alaska
Civil disabilities
Legally imposed restrictions of persons rights or liberties