MY ABC Book of us history

MY ABC Bookof us history Tyler Lowe 4 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 • Blockad-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

MY ABC Book of us history

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