Chapter 22: The Ordeal Of Reconstruction

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 act of blocking a congressionally passed law not by direct veto 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

Sharecropper

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

Pro-unions southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south in collusion with the republican governments

Question 7

Carpetbagger

Answer 7

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

President elected after Lincoln was assassinated

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

Secretary of State. Signed a treaty with Russia that transferred Alaska to the United States for the bargain price of 7.2 million

Question 10

Civil disabilities

Answer 10

Legally imposed restrictions of a persons civil rights or liberties