Chapter 22- Reconstruction

Question 1

Mutual aid societies

Answer 1

Nonprofit organizations designed to provide their members with financial and social benefits, often including medical aid, life insurance, funeral costs, and disaster relief.

Question 2

Confiscation

Answer 2

Legal government seizure of private property without compensation.

Question 3

Pocket veto

Answer 3

The presidential act of blocking a congressionally passed law not by direct 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 their creditors

Question 5

Sharecroppers

Answer 5

An agricultural system in which a tenant receives land, tools, and seed on credit and pledges in return a share of crop to the creditor

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

Pro union southerners who become republican

Question 7

Carpetbagger

Answer 7

Northerners who go into the south to work on reconstruction

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

President; came into office when Lincoln was assassinated; was very racist; democratic; was so disliked they tried to impeach him

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

Signed to buy Alaska from Russia and was greatly disliked for it

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions of a persons civil rights or liberties