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 congressional past law not by direct Veto but by simply refusing to sign it at the end of the session I

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Sharecropper

Answer 5

And agricultural system in which a tenant receives lands, tools, and seed on credit and pledges in return a share of the crop to the creditors

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

Derogatory term for a pro union Southerners whom southern Democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south end collision with republican government 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

Vice President who took Lincoln’s place but was later impeached

Question 9

William Seward

Answer 9

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