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My ABC Book Of U.S. History

My ABC Book Of U.S. History. Destiny Lafayette 5 th 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.

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My ABC Book Of U.S. History

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  1. My ABC Book Of U.S. History Destiny Lafayette 5th period 5-18-11

  2. Abolitionist • A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery

  3. Boycott • To refuse to buy items from a particular country

  4. 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

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

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

  7. Fugitive • Runaway or trying to run away

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

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

  10. Import • To buy goods from foreign markets

  11. judicial review • The branch of government, including the federal court system, that interrupts the nations laws

  12. Lynching • Putting to death a person illegal action of a mob

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

  14. Naturalization • To grant full citizenship to a foreigner

  15. Ordinance • A law or regulation

  16. Pueblo • Home or community of homes built by native Americans

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

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

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

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

  21. veto • To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law

  22. War hawks • Republican during Madison's presidency who pressed for war with Britain

  23. Yankee • Union soldier

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