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Ch. 17 & 19 vocab
Ch. 17 & 19 vocabulary for McGraw-Hill
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| provisional government | a temporary government |
| nullify | to cancel |
| Reconstruction | the effort, after the civil war, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union |
| pardon | an official release from punishment for a crime |
| Juneteenth | June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary Day for enslaved people in Texas |
| freedman | a formerly enslaved person |
| black codes | laws limiting the rights of African American passed by Southern governments after the Civil war |
| Radical Republican | a republican who believed that congress should direct Reconstruction |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans |
| carpetbagger | a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government |
| scalawag | white southerner who supported Reconstruction |
| compulsory | required |
| ceased | to end ; stop doing an action |
| ranchero | the Spanish word for "rancher" |
| open range | public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle |
| drive | the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market |
| drover | a person who moves livestock overland to market |
| stockyard | a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere |
| fee | money charged in exchange for a service or permission to take an action |
| wrangler | a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses |
| imagine | a set of partly unreal ideas associated with a person or object |
| quarantine | a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests |
| syndicate | a group of investors who join together to fund a business |
| mustang | the small, hardy horse of the West, descended from horses brought by the Spanish |
| felony | a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death |
| promote | the encourage people to take part in an activity |
| source | any person, place, or thing that supplies something that is wanted or needed |
| drift fence | barbed-wire fence dozens of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food |
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