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Ch. 17 & 19 vocab
Ch. 17 & 19 vocabulary for McGraw-Hill
| 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 emancipation day for enslaved people in Texas |
| freedman | a formerly enslaved person |
| black code | laws limiting the right of African Americans 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 |
| carpetbagger | a Northerner in the south working for a Reconstruction government |
| scalawag | a white southerner who supported Reconstruction |
| compulsory | required |
| demonstrate | to show prove or make clear |
| restrict | to place a limit on a person or action |
| register | to record a person officially as eligible to vote |
| ceased | to end: to 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 cattel in large herds a to a stockyard of=r maket |
| drover | a person who moves livestock overland to maraket |
| 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 |
| image | a set of partly unreal ideas associated with a person or object |
| wrangler | a ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses |
| quarantine | a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the solation of disease or pests |
| syndicate | a ground of investors who join together to fund a business |
| mustang | the small, hardy horse of the west descended from horses brought by the Spanish |
| promote | to encourage people to take part in an activity |
| source | any person place or thing that supplies something that is wanted or needed |
| felony | a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death |
| drift fence |
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