ABC Book of History(:
Katie Johnston 2nd
5-17-11
• Annex- to add territory to ones own territory to
• Ambush- a surprise attack • Abolitionist- a person who
strong favors doing away with slavery
• Arsenal- storage for weapons and ammunition
• Backcountry- a region of hills and forest west of tide waters
• Burgesses- elected represenstive to an assembly
• Blockade runner- ships that sail in and out of a blockaded area
• Boycott- to refuse to buy items from a particular country
• Cabinet- a group of advisers to the president
• Canal- an artificial water way • California gold rush- a large-scale
and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
• Capital- money for investment
• Debtor- person or country that owes money
• Diversity- variety or difference• Disarmament- removal of weapons• Desert- to leave with put
permission
• Emancipate- to free from slavery • Export- to sell goods abroad • Embargo- and order prohibiting trade with
another • Emigrant- a person who leaves one country to
go to another
• Frigate- warship • Feedman- a person freed
from slavery• Fugitive- runaway or
attempting to • Federalist- supporter of the
constitution
• Genocide- to deliberate destruction of a rail political or cultural group
• Green back- a piece of US paper money issued by the north during the civil war
• Guerrilla warfare- Fighting in which small independent bands of soldiers harass an enemy through surprise raids, attacks on communications and the like.
• Guerilla tactics- Guerrilla warfare is the irregular warfare and combat in which a small group of combatants use mobile military tactics in the form of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.
• Horizontal integration- the merging of firms at the same stage of production.
• Holocaust- mass slaugher of the jews• Habias corpus- A writ requiring a
person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, esp. to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention
• Human rights- A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person
• Implied powers –powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution
• Import- to buy goods from foreign markets
• Impressment – forcing people into service such as the navy
• Ironclad- armored navy vessel
• Judicial review- the right of the supreme court to determine whether a law is constitutional
• Join occupation – the possetion ans settlement of and area shared by two or more countries
• Judicial branch- the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice
• John Paul Jones- founder of the US navy
• Kansas Nebraska act- the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their
• Kentucky- sided with the union in the civil war• Kansas- fighting for slavery (confederare) • Bleeding Kansas- was a series of violent events, that
took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858.
• Landslide- over whelming victory• Literacy- the ability to read and right • Legislative branch- the branch of the
government that makes laws• Lexington- the first battle of the
revolutionary war
• Maize- corn • Majority- more than half• Manumission- the freeing of
enslaved people• Mission- religious settlement
• Neutral- take no side in conflict• Naturalization- to grant full citizen ship to an
immigrant• Nonimportation- the act of not using or
importing goods • Neutral rights- the right to sail the seas and
not take sides in war
• Offensive- position of attacking or the attack itself
• Ordinance- a law • Overseer- supervisor of a large operation • Override- to overturn a law
• Patriots- American colonist who were determined to fight the British until Americas indolence was won
• Petition- a formal request • Pilgrimage- a journey to a holy place• Privateers- armed private ships
• Quakers- believed that every individual had an inner light that could guide them to salvation
• Ranchero – Mexican ranch owner • Ratify- to give official approval• Reconstruction- the rebuliding of the
confederate states after the civil war• Recruit- to enlist soilders in the army
• Secede- to leave or withdraw• Secession- withdraw from the union• Sectionalism- loyalty to a region• Suffrage- the right to vote
• Tariff- a tax on imported goods• Technology- the application of scientific
discovery to practice use• Total war- war on all aspects of enemy life• Turnpike- road that one must pay to use
• Unalienable rights- a right that cannot be surrendered
• Unconstitutional- not agreeing with the constitution
• Underground railroad- escape routes for enslaved African Americans
• utopia- a perfect society
• Veto- to overturn a law• Vigilantes- people who take the law into their
own hands• Vaquero- hispanic ranch hand
• Warhawks- republicans during Madison's presidency who pressed war with puitans
• Writs of assistance- legal documents that allows officers to search homes and warehouses for smuggled goods
• Department of war- provides nations defence• West indies- Caribbean islands
• xyz affair- An incident in Franco-American relations in which a bribery attempt perpetrated by French agents in 1797 led the US to the brink of formal war with France.
• Yankee- northern citizen• Yeoman- southern owner of a small farm with
no slaves• Yellow journalism- a type of sensational,
biased, and false reporting
• John peter zenger- famous writer