Vocabulary
Terms
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- Inaugural
- marking the beginning of a new venture
- Abolition
- the legal prohibition and ending of slavery
- Emancipation
- representation
- martial law
- the law temporarity imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down
- histiography
- body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively
- guerilla war
- guerilla means small war; war tactics
- morality
- conformity of rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct
- egalitarian
- asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social life
- habeas corpus
- a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty
- subpoena
- the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body
- Ideology
- the body of doctrine, myth, belief, that guides an individual, social movements
- omnibus
- pertaining to, including, or dealing with numerous objects or items at once
- sovereignty
- the status; dominion, power, or authority of a sovereign; royalty
- sectionalism
- excessive regard for sectional or local interest; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.