Skyline Unit 5 Vocab

Civil Disobedience

• a presidential order that releases a person from legal punishment

• refusing to obey laws considered unjust

• to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• the ability to recover

Emancipation

• a person who is willing to die for his or her beliefs

• to make a formal written request

• putting to death by the illegal action of a mob

• freedom from slavery

Inaugural address

• freedom from slavery

• the first speech given by a new leader

• rebellion

• to rebel or revolt against those in charge

Insurrection

• to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• putting to death by the illegal action of a mob

• rebellion

• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas

Integrated

• Having brought people or groups with different characteristics or needs together into equal participation in a society or institution 

• a person who is willing to die for his or her beliefs

• to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas

Lynching

• to make a formal written request

• refusing to obey laws considered unjust

• putting to death by the illegal action of a mob

• to make a formal written request

martyr

• Having brought people or groups with different characteristics or needs together into equal participation in a society or institution 

• a person who is willing to die for his or her beliefs

• to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• violation of the allegiance owed by a person to his or her own country, for example, by aiding an enemy

mutiny

• to rebel or revolt against those in charge

• putting to death by the illegal action of a mob

• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas

• to make a formal written request

pardon

• violation of the allegiance owed by a person to his or her own country, for example, by aiding an enemy

• the first speech given by a new leader

• a violent protest

• a presidential order that releases a person from legal punishment

Petition

• to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• to make a formal written request

• putting to death by the illegal action of a mob

• refusing to obey laws considered unjust