MY ABC Book of us history

MY ABC Bookof us history

Tyler Lowe4

5-12--11

A

• Abolition –free slave

• Arden- an immigrant living

• Annex – to add a territory

B

• Boycott –to refuse to buy items

• Boomtown –growth in business or population

• Blockade-cut off an area by mean

C

• Cash crop –farm crop raised to be sold

• Cede – to give up by treaty

• Causally – a military person killed wanted

D

• Desert – to leave without permission

• Diversity- variety or difference

• Daft – the selection of person for military

E

• Export – to sell good abroad

• Emancipate –to free from slavery

• Entrenched –occupying a strong defensive

F

• Frigate – warship

• Freedman – a person freed from slavery

• Fugitive – runaway or trying to run away

G

• Global warning- a steady increase in average

• Greenback –a piece of us paper money

• Guerrilla tactic –referring to surprise attacks

H

• Holocaust -name given to mass slaughter Jews

• Horizontal integration- the combining of competing

• Hieroglyphics- an achiest from of writing

I

• Import –to buy good from foreign markets

• Impressments – forcing people into service as in the navy

• Ironclad –armored naval vessel

J

• Joint occupation- the possession and settling of an

• Judicial branch- the branch of government include the

• Judicial review –the right of the supreme court to determe

K

• Helen Keller-overcame her illness of Berger

• Bleeding Kansas-it was arrival one for

• Knox henry

L

• Lynching –putting to death a person by the illegal

• Loyalists –American colonist who remained loyal

• Landslide-an overwhelming victory

M

• Maize –an early form of corn grown by native

• Majority – more than half

• Mission –religious settlement

N

• Neutral –taking no side in a conflict

• Neutrality –a position of not taking side

• Nullify – to cancel or make ineffective

O

• Ordinance – a law or regulation

• Offensive –position of attacking

• Override – to overturn

p

• Plurality –largest single share

• Petition- a formal request

• Pilgrims – a journey to holy place

Q

• Quaker – believed that every individual had

• Quebec act-passed shortly after the coercing

• Quechua –the Inca language

R

• Radical-extreme

• Ranchero-Mexican ranch owner

• Recruit- to enlist soldier in the army

S

• Secede- to leave or withdraw

• Secession- withdraw from the union

• Sectionalism –loyalty to a region

T

• Tariff –a tax on imports of exports

• Total war-war on all aspects of the

• Tribute –money paid for protection

U

• Unalienable right –a right that cannot be surrender

• Union situational –not agreeing of consistent with

• Utopia –community based on a vision of a perfect

V

• Vaquero- Hispanic ranch land

• Veto- to reject a bill and prevent it

• Vigilantes – people who take the law into

W

• War hawk-republias during Madison president

• Write of assistance-legal document that enables

• War of 1812

X

• Xyz –affair –x,y,and z the president urged

Y

• Yankee – union soldier

• Yeoman – southern owner of a small farm who did

• Yellow journalism – a type of sensational

Z

• Zenger john peter- of the new York journal

• Zuni – the people of the south west