| A | B |
|---|
| abolitionists | people who wanted to an end to slavery |
| Laissez Faire | Hands off government policy |
| Calamity | diaster and distress |
| Tariffs | tax on imports |
| Duty | tax on imports |
| Espionage | spying |
| nullify | to do away with |
| emancipation | to free |
| secede | Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization |
| infrastructure | basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary |
| Freedman | former slaves |
| Wade-Davis Bill | 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans |
| Veto | Constitutional power of the President to refuse to sign a bill passed by congress |
| Pocket Veto | President doesn't sign bill and time expires |
| Segregation | separation of races |
| Abolitionists | people who wanted to put an end to slavery |
| Agribusiness | strategy of applying business practices to the operation of specialized commercial farms in order to achieve most crop |
| Amendment | A change in or addition to the Constitution |
| Assessment | collection and organization of data on student progress in achieving set objectives |
| Assimilation | acceptance, by one culture group or community, of cultural traits normally associated whth another |
| Authority | right conferred by law, morality or custom to control or direct the actions of others |
| Benefit | something that is useful to the recipient |
| Capitalism | economic system based on a free market and private ownership of property |
| Citizen | member of a society who has allegiance to and receives protection from the government |
| citizenship | staus of being a member of a state |
| Dred Scott decision | Supreme Court case, declared Scott a slave therefore could not bring suit for his freedom |
| Era | time period typified by some prominent figure (s) or characteristic feature |
| Impeachment | power of Congress to remove the president, vice president, federal judges and other federal officers from officers |
| Political Party | is any group, that seeks to elect gov't officials under a given label |
| Revolution | complete of drastic change of gov't and the rules by which gov't opperates |
