ABC Book of History(:

Katie Johnston 2nd

5-17-11

• Annex- to add territory to ones own territory to

• Ambush- a surprise attack • Abolitionist- a person who

strong favors doing away with slavery

• Arsenal- storage for weapons and ammunition

• Backcountry- a region of hills and forest west of tide waters

• Burgesses- elected represenstive to an assembly

• Blockade runner- ships that sail in and out of a blockaded area

• Boycott- to refuse to buy items from a particular country

• Cabinet- a group of advisers to the president

• Canal- an artificial water way • California gold rush- a large-scale

and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.

• Capital- money for investment

• Debtor- person or country that owes money

• Diversity- variety or difference• Disarmament- removal of weapons• Desert- to leave with put

permission

• Emancipate- to free from slavery • Export- to sell goods abroad • Embargo- and order prohibiting trade with

another • Emigrant- a person who leaves one country to

go to another

• Frigate- warship • Feedman- a person freed

from slavery• Fugitive- runaway or

attempting to • Federalist- supporter of the

constitution

• Genocide- to deliberate destruction of a rail political or cultural group

• Green back- a piece of US paper money issued by the north during the civil war

• Guerrilla warfare- Fighting in which small independent bands of soldiers harass an enemy through surprise raids, attacks on communications and the like.

• Guerilla tactics- Guerrilla warfare is the irregular warfare and combat in which a small group of combatants use mobile military tactics in the form of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.

• Horizontal integration- the merging of firms at the same stage of production.

• Holocaust- mass slaugher of the jews• Habias corpus- A writ requiring a

person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, esp. to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention

• Human rights- A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person

• Implied powers –powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution

• Import- to buy goods from foreign markets

• Impressment – forcing people into service such as the navy

• Ironclad- armored navy vessel

• Judicial review- the right of the supreme court to determine whether a law is constitutional

• Join occupation – the possetion ans settlement of and area shared by two or more countries

• Judicial branch- the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice

• John Paul Jones- founder of the US navy

• Kansas Nebraska act- the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their

• Kentucky- sided with the union in the civil war• Kansas- fighting for slavery (confederare) • Bleeding Kansas- was a series of violent events, that

took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858.

• Landslide- over whelming victory• Literacy- the ability to read and right • Legislative branch- the branch of the

government that makes laws• Lexington- the first battle of the

revolutionary war

• Maize- corn • Majority- more than half• Manumission- the freeing of

enslaved people• Mission- religious settlement

• Neutral- take no side in conflict• Naturalization- to grant full citizen ship to an

immigrant• Nonimportation- the act of not using or

importing goods • Neutral rights- the right to sail the seas and

not take sides in war

• Offensive- position of attacking or the attack itself

• Ordinance- a law • Overseer- supervisor of a large operation • Override- to overturn a law

• Patriots- American colonist who were determined to fight the British until Americas indolence was won

• Petition- a formal request • Pilgrimage- a journey to a holy place• Privateers- armed private ships

• Quakers- believed that every individual had an inner light that could guide them to salvation

• Ranchero – Mexican ranch owner • Ratify- to give official approval• Reconstruction- the rebuliding of the

confederate states after the civil war• Recruit- to enlist soilders in the army

• Secede- to leave or withdraw• Secession- withdraw from the union• Sectionalism- loyalty to a region• Suffrage- the right to vote

• Tariff- a tax on imported goods• Technology- the application of scientific

discovery to practice use• Total war- war on all aspects of enemy life• Turnpike- road that one must pay to use

• Unalienable rights- a right that cannot be surrendered

• Unconstitutional- not agreeing with the constitution

• Underground railroad- escape routes for enslaved African Americans

• utopia- a perfect society

• Veto- to overturn a law• Vigilantes- people who take the law into their

own hands• Vaquero- hispanic ranch hand

• Warhawks- republicans during Madison's presidency who pressed war with puitans

• Writs of assistance- legal documents that allows officers to search homes and warehouses for smuggled goods

• Department of war- provides nations defence• West indies- Caribbean islands

• xyz affair- An incident in Franco-American relations in which a bribery attempt perpetrated by French agents in 1797 led the US to the brink of formal war with France.

• Yankee- northern citizen• Yeoman- southern owner of a small farm with

no slaves• Yellow journalism- a type of sensational,

biased, and false reporting

• John peter zenger- famous writer