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s.s. week 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amend | to alter,change,or add to |
| armory | a storehouse for arms |
| Broadside | something, such as an advertisement or public notice, that is printed on a large piece of paper |
| Charter | a document issued by the government, creating a public or private corporation |
| Guerrilla | a member of an irregular military unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy,as by surprise raids |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated,surrendered, or transferred |
| ordinance | a local law |
| Reminiscence | a narration of past experiences |
| Representative Government | a form of government in which the citizens delegate authority to elected representatives |
| Revenue | income of a government for the payment of the public expenses |
| Secede | to withdraw from an organization |
| Segregate | to seperate by race; to keep apart |
| Squatter | to settle on unoccupied land without legal claim |
| Veto | to reject a bill from being a law |
| Black Kettle | prominent leader of the southern Cheyenne during the american Indian wars |
| Cyrus K. Holiday | one of the founders of the of the township of topeka and kansas |
| John James Ingalls | american politician |
| James Lane | partisan during the bleeding Kansas period period that immediately preceded the American civil war |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the united states |
| Julia Louisa Lovejoy | she was an abolitionist |
| Sterling Price | soldier,lawyer,planter,and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri who served as the 11th governor of the state |
| William C. Quantrill | confederate leader during the american civil war |
| Charles Robinson | first governor of Kansas |
| Medicine Lodge | most popular city in and the country city of Barber Country,Kansas United States |
| Lawrence | 6th largest city in the state of Kansas |
| Fort Leavenworth | united states army installation located in Leavenworth Country, Kansas |