Goverment
Terms
Miscellaneous
100

A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation, etc. (ex: The 14th Amendment)

What is amendment?

100

(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.

What is progressive?
100

extreme scarcity of food.

what is famine?


200

The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty

What is ratification?

200

Right to vote in public and political elections

What is suffrage?

200

a person who farms rented land.

what is tenant farming?

300

Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation.

What is conservative?

300

(of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.

What is sharecropping?

300

charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.

what is impeach?

400
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation
What is emancipation?


400

An established law, practice, or custom.

What is institution?

400

The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

what is segregation?

500
Restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinction at the expense of general well-being.

What is sectionalism?

500

Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

What is secede?

500

to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously. to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously

Assasination