Chapter 22 Study Guide

Question 1

Mutual aid societies

Answer 1

Nonprofit organization 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

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

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

System in which debtors are held in servitude, to labor for their creditors

Question 5

Sharecropper

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

Derogatory term for pro-union southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south in collision with the republican governments after the civil war

Question 7

Carpetbagger

Answer 7

Derogatory term used by southern whites to describe northern businessmen and politicians who came to the south after the civil war to work on reconstruction projects or invest in southern infrastructure

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

William Henry Seward was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and also served as Governor of New York and United States Senator.

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions of a person’s civil rights or liberties