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ch.17 & 18 vocab
ch.17 & 19 vocab for McGraw-hill
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | the effort after the civil war to reorganize the seceded states and bring them into the union |
| pardon | an official release from punishment for a crime |
| provisional government | a temporary government |
| nullify | to cancel |
| Juneteenth | June 19th the date celebrated as the anniversary of emancipation for enslaved people in Texas |
| freedman | a formerly enslaved person |
| black codes | laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by the 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 |
| scalawags | a white southerner who supported reconstruction |
| compulsory | required |
| ranchero | the Spanish word for Rancher |
| open range | public land that can be used by any one , 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 else where |
| wrangler | a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses |
| 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 businnes |
| mustang |
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