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- plurality
- in an election, the number of votes that the leading candidate obtains over the next highest candidate
- log cabin campaign
- campaign to show William Henry Harrison was for people
- desert
- leave someone who needs or counts on you
- deport
- send out of the country; behave; N. deportation, deportment
- deserter
- a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
- sedition
- an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
- impressment
- Act of seizing someone and forcing them into military service
- amendment
- a change made in a law or bill
- technology
- the practical application of science to commerce or industry
- recruit
- a recently enlisted soldier
- states rights
- the belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority
- tejano
- a Mexican who claims Texas as his home
- neutral
- one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
- militia
- civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army
- compromise
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- laissez-faire
- french term to let people do as they choose
- petition
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- customs duties
- taxes on foreign imported goods
- effigy
- dummy; likeness of a person made of wood, paper, or stone; Ex. burn an effigy of the President
- patriot
- one who loves and defends his or her country
- proportional
- a type of representation based on the population of a state
- federalist
- Political party that supported a strong federal government
- patriot
- one who loves and defends his or her country
- partisan
- devoted to a cause or party
- tariff
- a government tax on imports or exports
- petition
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- ambush
- to attack suddenly and unexpectedly
- tribute
- payment by one nation for protection by another
- frigate
- warship
- privateer
- a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
- ratify
- approve formally; confirm; verify
- judicial review
- power of the courts to declare acts of the legislature and of the executive to be unconstitutional
- alien
- a person who comes from a foreign country
- revenue
- the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
- depression
- a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
- resolution
- finding a solution to a problem
- disarmament
- act of reducing or depriving of arms
- ranchero
- Mexican ranch owner
- bicameral
- composed of two legislative bodies
- repeal
- revoke; annul
- loyalist
- a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)
- rancho
- huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California
- propaganda
- information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
- blockade
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- bureaucracy
- nonelective government officials
- preamble
- a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose)
- bond
- a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money
- annex
- take illegally, as of territory
- nominating convention
- meeting, political party chooses candidate delegates from states
- patent
- an official document granting a right or privilege
- loyalist
- a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)
- embargo
- a government order imposing a trade barrier
- guerilla warfare
- Hit and run raids.
- manumission
- the encouragement of the freeing of enslaved persons was started in virgnina
- nationalism
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- vigilante
- one who without authority assumes law enforcement powers
- caucus
- a closed political meeting
- mercenary
- a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- internal improvements
- imporvements to roads, bridges, and canals
- constitution
- A plan of government. (p. 333)
- republic
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- cabinet
- A group of departments that assists the president is running the government
- enlightment
- idea that logic and reason could help in law, society, and government
- capital
- Money to invest in buisnesses
- secede
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- minutemen
- Member of a militia during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in sixty seconds
- factory system
- method that brought machines and workers into one buildinging
- cede
- relinquish possession or control over
- industrial revolution
- the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
- boycott
- a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
- speculator
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- nullify
- to render or declare legally void or inoperative
- national debt
- The amount of money owed by the federal government
- californios
- Mexican cattle ranchers, Mexicans who lived in California