C.t.l.t.C.W. [FINAL] Vocabulary

●Ordinance - an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.●Continental Congress - either of two legislative congresses during and after the Revolutionary War. The first was insession from September 5 to October 26, 1774, to petition the British government for a redress of grievances. The second existed from May 10, 1775, to 1789, and issued the Declaration of Independence and established the Articles of Confederation.●Subsequently - following in order or succession; succeeding.●Assembly - an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose.●Delegate - a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a politicalconvention.●Provisions - Pa clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation;●Inhabitants - a person or animal that inhabits [to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals] a place, especiallyas a permanent resident.●Habeas corpus - a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of arestraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.●Intrusive - tending or apt to intrude [to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.; coming withoutinvitation or welcome.●Embedded - to fix into a surrounding mass; to surround tightly or firmly; envelop or enclose.●Grueling - exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe.●Lucrative - profitable; moneymaking; remunerative.●Accustomed - habituated; acclimated (usually followed by to).●Eradicated - to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate; to pull up by the roots.●Alien and Sedition Acts - A series of laws, passed during the presidency of John Adams at the end of the eighteenthcentury, that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies. In response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which asserted states' rights.●Amalgamation - the state or result of being amalgamated [to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend, unite,combine].●Abolitionists - (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in theU.S.●Amendment - an alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.●Unincorporated - not chartered as a self-governing village or city; lacking the tax, police, and other powers conferredby the state on incorporated towns.●36 30 parallel - In the United States, the parallel 36°30 ′ forms part of the boundary between Tennessee andKentucky, in the region west of the Tennessee River and east of the Mississippi River. This parallel also forms part of the boundary between Missouri and Arkansas in the region west of the St. Francis River, and part of the boundary between the Oklahoma Panhandle and the Texas Panhandle. The rest of the boundaries between Virginia and NorthCarolina; between Virginia and Tennessee; and between Tennessee and Kentucky lie close to the parallel 36°30 ′. The boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee was defined as 36°30 ′, based on the Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665 that set the boundary of the Colony of Virginia and the Province of Carolina. During the American Civil War, all of the states located wholly south of 36°30 ′ north joined the Confederate States of America. All of the states with land north of the parallel, except Virginia, stayed in the Union, although Kentucky and Missouri had Confederate legislatures that were elected in parallel with their regular legislatures. Also Maryland, another slave state, was occupied by the Union Army under the commands of President Abraham Lincoln, and its legislature was thus pressured into voting not to secede. Naturally, Abe Lincoln and the remaining members of the U.S. Congress wanted Maryland to stay in the Union in order to prevent the national capital city of Washington, D.C. from being surrounded byConfederate states, and hence being cut off from the rest of the Union. If such a thing had happened, then the Federal government would have been forced to move somewhere else further north, such as to Philadelphia.●Strident - having a shrill, irritating quality or character.●Entrenched - to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly.●Emancipation - the act of emancipating [to free (a slave) from bondage].●Condemn - to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.●Genocide - the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.●Cohorts - any group of soldiers or warriors.●Backlash - a strong or violent reaction, as to some social or political change.●Mitigate - to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to make less severe.●Lynched - to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.●Frenzied - violently agitated; frantic; wild, usually a mob of people.●Slanderous - defamation; calumny; a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report.●Controversial - of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy [a prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention;disputation concerning a matter of opinion; contention, strife, or argument.], or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical.●Conspiracy - an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.●Clause - a distinct article or provision in a contract, treaty, will, or other formal or legal written document.●Sentiment - refined or tender emotion; the manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings; an attitude towardsomething; regard; opinion.●Petitioned - a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that isaddressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefits.●Omnibus - a volume of reprinted works of a single author or of works related in interest or theme.●Dispute - to engage in argument or debate.●Feasible - capable of being done, effected, or accomplished.●Ballots - voting in general, or a round of voting.●Fanatical - motivated or characterized by an extreme, uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.●Prominent - leading, important, famous, or well-known.●Unanimously - Without opposition; with the agreement of all people involved; of one mind; in complete agreement.●Nullify - Make legally null and void; invalidate; to render or declare legally void or inoperative.●Obligations - An act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty, custom, law orcommitment.。