2.  Abolitionists : a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery.  Amendment : an addition to a formal document such as the constitution. Adams, Samuel : helped start an organization called “Sons of Liberty”

3.  Blockade Runner: ship that sails into and out of a blockade area.  Boycott : refuse to buy items for a particular country  Burgesses : elected representatives to an assembly

4.  Cotton Gin : machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber.  Civil War : conflict between opposing groups.  Cash Crop : form crop raised to be sold for money.

5.  Depression : period of law economic activity and widespread.  Decree: order of decision given by one authority.  Davis, Jefferson: senator of Missouri

6.  Emancipation : freeing of slavery.  Export : sells goods aboard.  Embargo : order prohibiting trade w/ another country.

7.  Federalism : sharing of power between federal and state government.  Fredrick Douglass: black abolitionists  Federalists : supports of the constitution.

8.  Guerilla Warfare:  hit-and-run  Gadsden Purchase: portion of present day Arizona & New Mexico  Gettysburg: city and civil war battle site in south central Pennsylvania.

9.  Holocaust: name given to the mass slaughter.  Human rights : rights reguarding to all person’s  Habeas Corpus: legal order for an inquiry to determine whether that person has been lawfully

10.  Impressments: forcing people into service, as in the navy  Import: buy goods from foreign markets.  Imperialism: actions used by one nation to excirse political or economic control

11.  Judicial Branch: branch of government, including the federal court system  Jefferson, Thomas : 3 rd president  Judicial review: right of the supreme court to determine if a law violates the constitution.

12.  Kansas- Nebraska Act: supporting democrats  Kennedy, John F: assassinated  King Jr., Martin :  ” I Have a Dream”

13.  Laissez-Faire: policy that government should interference little as possible in the nation’s economy.  Landslide: overwhelming Victory.  Loyalists: American colonists who remains loyal to Britain and opposed war for independence.

14.  Majority: more than ½  Maize: early farm corn grown by native Americans  Militia : group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies.

15.  Neutral :  Nationalism: loyalty to a nation and promotion of its interest above all others  Majority: more than ½