The Ordeal Of Reconstruction

Question 1

Mutual aid societies

Answer 1

Nonprofits designed to provide 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

When a president refuses to sign a bill at all. He doesn’t directly reject it, but it goes away after 10 days

Question 4

Peonage

Answer 4

Debtors are held in servitude, to labor for her creditors

Question 5

Sharecropper

Answer 5

Tenant receives land, tools, and seed on credit and gives a share of the crop to the creditor

Question 6

Scalawag

Answer 6

Pro Union southerners who are accused of plundering the resources of the south

Question 7

Carpet bagger

Answer 7

Used by southern whites to describe northern businessmen. Politicians who left the south and came out to get out of here mm

Question 8

Johnson

Answer 8

The president after Lincoln

Question 9

Civil Disabilities

Answer 9

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