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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 |
| Junteenth | June 19th the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas |
| freedman | a formerly enslaved |
| 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 |
| syndicate | a group of investors who join together to fund a business |
| mustange | 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 |
| Radical Republican | A Republican who believed that congress should direct Reconstruiction |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against Africa Americans |
| carpetbagger | a northerner in the south working for a Reconstruction government |
| scalawag | a white southerner who supported Reconstruction |
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| drift fence | barbed--wire fence dozen of miles long used in the Texas panhandle to mark the northern limits of a ranchers to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting and competing for food |
| DRY FARMING | a farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top slowing evaporation to keep soli moist |
| method | a way or system of doing something |
| series | a number of things or events that are arranged or happen one after the other |
| tenant farmer | a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash in shapes of the crop |
| sharecropper | a farmer who in exchange for labor is provided with seed tools living quarters and food and receives a share of the value of the crop |
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