Reconstruction

Question 1

Mutual aid societies

Answer 1

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

Question 2

confiscation

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Pocketed veto

Answer 3

an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867.

Question 5

Sharecropper

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.

Question 7

Carpetbagger

Answer 7

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

the seventh President of the United States

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

a condition of a person who has had a legal right or privilege revoked as a result of a criminal conviction