My ABC Book Of U.S. History

Destiny Lafayette5th period

5-18-11

Abolitionist

• A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery

Boycott

• To refuse to buy items from a particular country

Checks and balances

• The system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful

Dictator

• A leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal manner

Emigrant

• A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere

Fugitive

• Runaway or trying to run away

Genocide

• The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

Habeas corpus

• A legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned

Import

• To buy goods from foreign markets

judicial review

• The branch of government, including the federal court system, that interrupts the nations laws

Lynching

• Putting to death a person illegal action of a mob

Manifest Destiny

• The idea popular in the united states during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the pacific

Naturalization

• To grant full citizenship to a foreigner

Ordinance

• A law or regulation

Pueblo

• Home or community of homes built by native Americans

RANCHO

• Huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California

Strike

• A stopping of work by workers to force an employee to meet demands

Theocracy

• A form of government in which the society is ruled by religious leaders

Utopia

• Community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers

veto

• To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law

War hawks

• Republican during Madison's presidency who pressed for war with Britain

Yankee

• Union soldier