My ABC Book of U.S History By: Bre’ayah McDonald

A: Abolitionist A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery

B: Border States The states between the North and the South that were divided over whether to stay in the Union or join the Confederacy

C: Canal An artificial waterway

D: Dictator A leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal manner

E: Electoral College A special group of voters selected by their state’s voters for the president and vice president

F: Federalists Supporters of the Constitution

G: Guerrilla Warfare A hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes

H: Holocaust The name given to the mass slaughter of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War ll

I: Interchangeable Parts Uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces

J: Judicial Branch The branch of government, including the federal court system, that interprets the nation’s laws

L: Loyalist American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

M: Morse Code A system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation

N: Northwest Passage Water route to Asia through North America sought by European explorers

O: Ozone The layers of gas composed of a form of oxygen that protects the earth and its people from cancer-causing sun rays

P: Pilgrims Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose

R: Republic A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives

S: Smuggling Trading illegally with other nations

T: Tidewater A region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast

U: Unalienable Right a right that cannot be surrendered

V: Vertical Integration The combining of companies that supply equipment and services needed for a