A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation, etc. (ex: The 14th Amendment)
What is amendment?
(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
extreme scarcity of food.
what is famine?
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty
What is ratification?
Right to vote in public and political elections
What is suffrage?
a person who farms rented land.
what is tenant farming?
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation.
What is conservative?
(of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.
What is sharecropping?
charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.
what is impeach?
An established law, practice, or custom.
What is institution?
The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
what is segregation?
What is sectionalism?
Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is secede?
to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously. to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously
Assasination