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Ch 17 &19
Ch 17 & 19 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Provisional government | A temporary government |
| nullify | to cancel |
| Juneteenth | June 19th the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emanicipation day for enslaved people in Texas |
| Freedman | A formerly enslaved person |
| Black codes | Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after Civil war |
| 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 |
| wrangler | A ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses |
| quartine | A state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests |
| syndiacte | A group of investors who join together to fund a business |
| mustang | The small hardy of the west descended from horses brought by the spanish |
| felony | A serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death |
| drift fence | Barbed wire fence dozens of miles long used in Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifiting off the land and wild cattle from drifiting onto it and competing for food |
| dry farming | A farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top slowing evaporation to keep soil moist |
| fallow | left unplanted for one or more growing seasons |
| tenant farmer | a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop |
| sharecrooper | a farmer who in exchange for labor is provided with seed tool living quarters and food and receives a share of value of the crop |
| Radical Republican | A republican who believed that congress should direct reconstructiom |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret organization of white man formed after the Civil war that used violence and terror against African Americans |
| Carpetbagger | A northern in the south working for a Reconstrution government |
| scalawag | A white southerner who supported reconstructio |
| compulsory | required |
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