Chapter 22

Question 1

Confiscation

Answer 1

the action of taking or seizing someone’s property with authority; seizure.

Question 2

Poket veto

Answer 2

A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action (instead of affirmatively vetoing it).

Question 3

Peonage

Answer 3

also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work.

Question 4

Sharecropper

Answer 4

a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

Question 5

Scalawag

Answer 5

White republican southerner

Question 6

Carpetbagger

Answer 6

In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War

Question 7

Andrew Johnson

Answer 7

Democrat

Question 8

Mutual aid societies

Answer 8

mutual aid society is an organization or voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, or insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.