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| Abolish | to do away with |
| Abolition | the act of doing away with or the state of being done away with |
| Accuse | to charge with a fault, offense,or crime |
| Acquired | to gain possession of |
| Activity | natural or normal function |
| Acres | property in the form of land |
| Addressed | directed in the for of speech or a written statement |
| Admit | to give up as true or valid |
| Affirmative action | an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of minority groups and women |
| Agriculture | the science |
| Altitude | the height of anything above a given elevation |
| Amendment | an alteration of or addition to a motion |
| American Colonization Society | American group that supported and created a nation in Africa for freed American Blacks |
| Amnesty | the act of an authority as a government by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| Anarchy | absence or denial of any authority or established order |
| Analyze | to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by analysis |
| Anti federalists | a member of the group that opposed the adoption of the United States Constitution |
| Appeal | a legal proceeding by which a case is brought before a higher court for review of the decision of a lower court |
| Appeasement | to bring peace and quiet; subside |
| Approval | the act or instance of consent or authorization |
| Arraignment | the act of calling a defendant before a court to answer to an indictment or charge |
| Arrest | to take or keep in custody by authority of law |
| Armistice | temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement between the opponents; truce |
| Artifact | an object remaining from a particular period |
| Assimilation | the process of receiving new facts or of responding to new situations in consistency with what is already available to consciousness |
| Assume | to take as granted or true; suppose |
| Authenticity | not false or imitation; real |
| Author | one that originates or creates; source |
| Authority | power to influence or command thought |
| Bank | an establishment for the custody |
| Bankrupt | a person judicially declared subject to having his or her estate administered under the bankrupt laws for the benefit of creditors |
| Battle | a general encounter or conflict between people |
| Behalf | the interest or representation or something/someone |
| Benefits | a service as health insurance or right as to take vacation time provided by an employer in addition to wages or salary; also advantages |
| Bias | a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment; prejudice |
| Bill of Rights | a summary of fundamental rights and privileges guaranteed to a people against violation by the state |
| Blockade | obstruction |
| Bond | one who acts as bail or surety |
| Bonus | money or an equivalent given in addition to an employee's usual compensation; also commonly granted to athletes and war veterans |
| Boundary | something that indicates or fixes a limit or extent |
| Cargo | the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship |
| Capitalism | an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods |
| Capture | an act of catching |
| Checks and Balances | a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power |
| Citizenship | the status of being a citizen |
| Civil Law | the law established by a nation or state for its own jurisdiction |
| Command | to direct authoritatively and exercise a dominating influence over |
| Compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| Communication | the process by which information is transmitted most commonly by means of verbal or written messages |
| Conduct | the act,manner,or process of carrying on; management |
| Confederacy | the body formed by persons,states,or nations united by a league: the 11 southern states seceding from the United States in 1860 and 1861 |
| Consist | to be composed or made up |
| Construction | the process |
| Debt | something owed |
| Defeat | to win victory over |
| Delegate | a person acting for another as a representative |
| Democracy | government by the people; rule of the majority |
| Democrats | those who practice social equality |
| Denial | refusal to admit the truth or reality |
| Density | the quantity per unit volume,unit area,or unit length |
| Deprived | withheld or kept from something |
| Dictator | one holding complete autocratic control ruling entirely and often oppressively |
| Dictatorship | a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small group |
| Document | a writing conveying information |
| Due Process | a course of formal proceedings as legal proceedings carried out regularly and in accordance with established rules and principles |
| Efficiently | being or involving the immediate means or resources in producing a desired effect |
| Elect | to select or choose,,most commonly for a job or government position |
| Ensure | to make a thing or person sure |
| Equal | of the same measure,,quantity,amount,or number as another; also in quality,nature,or status in a group,class,or society |
| Equalizer | something to make uniform or equivalent |
| Era | a period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic feature |
| European | of,relating to,or characteristic of the continent of Europe or its people |
| Excess | more than the usual,proper,or specified amount; supplementary |
| Exist | to have real being whether material or spiritual |
| Expedition | a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose |
| Express | directly,firmly,and explicitly stated |
| Factor | one that actively contributes to the production of a result |
| Factory | a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| Famine | an extreme scarcity of food |
| Federal | of or relating to a compact or treaty |
| Federalism | the distribution of power in an organization as a government between a central authority and the constituent units |
| Federalists | an advocate of federalism or a federal union between the American colonies after the Revolution and of the adoption of the United States Constitution |
| Felony | a grave crime formerly differing from a misdemeanor under English common law by involving forfeiture in addition to any other punishment |
| Finance | money or other liquid resources of a government,business,group,or individual |
| Flee | to run away often from danger or evil |
| Forced | compelled by force or necessity; involuntary |
| Foreign | born in,belonging to,or characteristic of some place or country other than the one under consideration |
| Government | the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit |
| Governor | one that exercises authority especially over an area or group |
| Grant | to permit as a right,or favor |
| Guaranteed | to give security to |
| Hemisphere | half of a spherical or roughly spherical body as a planet |
| Independence | the quality or state of not being subject to control by others |
| Industry | systematic labor especially for some useful purpose or the creation of something of value |
| Interpretation | a particular adaptation or version of a work,method,or style |
| Invasion | the incoming or spread of something usually hurtful |
| Impeach | to charge a public official before a competent tribunal with misconduct in office |
| Individual | existing as an indivisible whole |
| Inform | to communicate knowledge to someone |
| Interior | the internal affairs of a state or nation |
| Journey | an act or instance of traveling from one place to another |
| Jurisdiction | the power,right,or authority to interpret and apply the law |
| Justice of the Peace | a local magistrate empowered chiefly to administer summary justice in minor cases,to commit for trial,and to administer oaths and perform marriages |
| Justify | to prove or show to be just,right,or reasonable |
| Judge | to form an opinion about through careful weighing of evidence and testing of premises |
| King | a male monarch of a major territorial unit |
| Leader | something that guides or directs others |
| Legislature | an organized body having the authority to make laws for a political unit |
| Majority | a number or percentage equaling more than half of a total |
| Merchant | a buyer and seller of commodities for profit |
| Middle | equally distant from the extremes |
| Migration | the act or instance of moving from one country |
| Military | those of or relating to soldiers,arms,or war |
| Misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony |
| Monarch | a person who reigns over a kingdom or empire |
| Monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| Movement | the act,process,or manner of changing ones place or position or posture |
| Native American | a Native American of North America |
| Navigate | to make one's way over or through |
| Noble | of high birth or exalted rank; aristocratic |
| Novel | new and not resembling something formerly known or used |
| Official | one who holds or is invested with an office |
| Opponent | one that takes an opposite position as in a debate,contest,or conflict |
| Opportunity | a favorable juncture of circumstances |
| Organize | to cause to develop an organic structure |
| Parliament | a formal conference for the discussion of public affairs |
| Patriotism | love for or devotion to one's country |
| Philosopher | a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment |
| Population | the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region |
| Port | a harbor town or city where ships may take on or discharge cargo |
| Prevent | to meet or satisfy in advance |
| Primarily | for the most part |
| Principle | a rule or code of conduct |
| Process | a series of actions or operations conducing to an end |
| Protest | a complaint |
| Profitable | yielding advantageous returns or results |
| Public | exposed to general view |
| Puritan | a member of a 16th and 17th century Protestant group in England and New England opposing as unscriptural the ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England |
| Pursuit | the act of finding or employing measures to obtain or accomplish |
| Ratified | approved and sanctioned formally |
| Ratify | to approve and sanction formally |
| Rebel | opposing or taking arms against a government or ruler |
| Rebellion | opposition to one in authority or dominance |
| Recent | having lately come into existence |
| Recognize | to acknowledge formally |
| Reflect | to make manifest or apparent |
| Reform | to put or change into an improved form or condition |
| Religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| Relocate | to move to a new location |
| Representation | one whose position is to act in the place of or for usually by legal right |
| Republic | a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president |
| Require | to claim or ask for by right and authority |
| Resident | living in a place for some length of time |
| Result | beneficial or tangible effect |
| Revenues | the total income produced by a given source |
| Rights | something to which one has a just claim,commonly the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled |
| Sanitation | the promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease by maintenance of clean conditions |
| Seize | to take possession of |
| Senate | an assembly or council usually possessing high deliberative and legislative functions |
| Sentence | a conclusion given on request or reached after deliberation,commonly one formally pronounced by a court or judge in a criminal proceeding and specifying the punishment to be inflicted upon the convict |
| Settler | one that inhabits |
| Significant | having or likely to have influence,meaning,or effect |
| Silent | free from sound or noise |
| Shortage | lack |
| Slave | a person held in servitude as the chattel of another |
| Speech | the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words |
| Suffer | to submit to or be forced to endure |
| Suffrage | the right of voting |
| Social | of or relating to human society,the interaction of the individual and the group,or the welfare of human beings as members of society |
| Southern | of,relating to,or characteristic of a region conventionally designated South |
| Summary | covering the main points succinctly |
| Summarize | to tell in or reduce to a summary |
| Supplies | the quantities of goods or services offered for sale at a particular time or at one price |
| Support | to promote the interests or cause of something or someone |
| Tax | a charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes |
| Terms | limited or definite extents of time; also a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar to a science,art,profession,or subject |
| Territory | a geographic area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority |
| Timeline | a table listing important events for successive years within a particular historical period |
| Totalitarian | of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy |
| Trial | the formal examination before a competent tribunal of the matter in issue in a civil or criminal cause in order to determine such issue |
| Troops | a group of soldiers |
| Tyranny | oppressive power |
| Union | an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one,such as the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and independent units |
| Upset | to trouble mentally or emotionally |
| Virtually | almost entirely |
| Voice | sound produced by human beings |
| Vote | a usually formal expression of opinion or will in response to a proposed decision |
| Whig | a member or supporter of a major British political group of the late 17th through early 19th centuries seeking to limit the royal authority and increase parliamentary power |
