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ch. 17 & 19 vocab
Ch 17 & 19 vocabulary Mcgraw - Hill
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reconstruct | the effort after the civil war to recognize the seceded |
| pardon | an official release from punishment for crime |
| provisional government | a temporary government |
| nullify | to cancel |
| Juneteenth | june 19th the date celebrated as the anniversary for emamapntion day |
| freedome | a formerly enslaved person |
| black codes | laws limiting rights to african americans |
| radical republican | a republican who believed that congress should direct reconstruction |
| ku klux klan | a secret organisation. |
| carpetbagger | a northerner in the south working for recusation government |
| scaliwag | a white southerner who supports recusation |
| compulsory | required |
| ceased | to stop an action |
| ranchero | the spanish word for rancher |
| open range | public land that can be used by anyone |
| drive | the movement on cattle in large herds |
| drover | a person who moves overland |
| stockyard | a place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered. |
| fee | a money charge |
| image | a set on party ideas associated with a person |
| quarantine | a state of forced isolation |
| syndicate | a group of investors who join together to fund a business |
| mustang | the small hardy horse of the west |
| fenoly | a serious crime for witch punishment may be improsined or death |
| drift emce | barbed wire fences miles long |
| dry farming | a farming approach that uses careful plowing |
| tentae farmer | a farmer who works land. |
| sharecopper | a farmer who in exchange for labor is provided with seeds tools and revices a share of the crop |
| image | a set of partly unreal ideas |
| confine | to limit or resctirct the momvent of |
| sinew | strong tissue |
| tatic | a course of action |
| resigster | to record a person officaily |
| restrict | to place a limint on a person or aciton |
| polciy | set of actions or undertaken. |
| corrupt | disthonest or imortal |
| paficist | the belief that is wrong to use voilience to settle conflics |