STAAR Grade 8 Social Studies: History 3

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  1. annex
    take territory as if by conquest
  2. assassination
    murder of a public figure by surprise attack
  3. blockade
    a war measure isolating an area of importance to the enemy
  4. bureau
    an administrative unit of government
  5. civil war
    a war between factions in the same country
  6. emancipation
    freeing someone from the control of another
  7. expansion
    the act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope
  8. impeachment
    the act of charging an official with an offense committed while in office
  9. manifest destiny
    a policy of imperialist expansion said to be inevitable
  10. ordinance
    an authoritative rule
  11. proclamation
    a formal public statement
  12. reconstruction
    the activity of building something again
  13. reform
    make changes for improvement to remove abuse and injustices
  14. resettlement
    the transportation of people to a new place to live
  15. secede
    withdraw from an organization or polity
  16. secession
    formal separation from an alliance or federation
  17. sectionalism
    excessive devotion to the interests of a particular region
  18. sharecropper
    a tenant farmer who owes a portion of each harvest for rent
  19. suffrage
    a legal right to vote
  20. treaty
    a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
Created on Wed Jun 23 16:04:01 EDT 2021 (updated Thu Jun 24 10:10:56 EDT 2021)

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