Chapter 22 Vocabulary

a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.

• pardon

• vigilante

• impeach

• amnesty

• exiled

an agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.

• overrode

• abridge

• Freedmen's Bureau

• amnesty

• Reconstruction

curtail (reduce) a right or privilege.

• oath

• abridge

• amnesty

• exiled

• vigilante

to charge a public official with misconduct in office

• black codes

• oath

• allegiance

• pardon

• impeach

a solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behavior.

• impeach

• abridge

• oath

• pardon

• black codes

(of a person) having been expelled and barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

• exiled

• abridge

• allegiance

• amnesty

• assassination

restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• abridge

• Freedmen's Bureau

• amnesty

• black codes

a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources

• vigilante

• oath

• allegiance

• poll tax

• impeach

the action of killing someone.

• impeach

• black codes

• assassination

• pardon

• exiled

use one's authority to reject or cancel (a decision, view, etc.)

• override

• oath

• pardon

• amnesty

• impeach