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ch 17 notes
magraw hills ch 17 and 19 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reconstruction | the effort after the civil war to recorganzie the seceded states and bring them back into the union |
| pardon | an official release from punishment for a crime |
| junetheenth | june 19th the date celbrated as the anniverary of emancipation day for enslaved people in texas |
| freedman | a formerly enslaved person |
| black codes | laws limiting the rights of africans americans passed by sounthern governments after the civil war |
| radical replicans | a republican who believed that congress should direct reconstuction |
| restrict | to place a limit on a person or action |
| ku klux klan | a seret organization of white men formed after the civil war that used violence and terr aginst africas americans |
| caretbagger | a northerrner in the south working for a reconstruction government |
| scalawages | a white sountherner who supported reconstruction |
| caeased | to end to stop doing an action |
| compulsory | required |
| ranchero | the spanish word for rancher |
| open range | public land the could be used for by anyone usually for grazing cattle |
| drive | the movement of cattle in large herds to a stock yard or market |
| drover | a person who moves livestock overland to a market |
| stockyard | a place where livestock are penned before they are slaghered or shipped elsewhere |
| wrangler | a ranch hand who takes care of a saddle horses |
| quarantine | a state of enforce isolation desiigned to pervent the sprade of disease or pets |
| syndicate | a group of inverstors who join togather to fund a business |
| mustange |