Early Statehood Vocabulary.HallsvilleJH

The highest ranking officer in the state government.

• Governor

• Lieutenant Governor

• Cession

• Abolitionist

The second highest ranking officer in the state government.

• Lieutenant Governor

• Governor

• Ratify

• Cession

The transfer of land from one country to another.

• Cession

• Abolitionist

• Reservation

• Reparation

A person who wants to end slavery.

• Abolitionist

• Census

• Antebellum

• Ratify

The belief popular in the United States in the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Reparation

• Reservation

• Ratify

To approve formally.

• Ratify

• Census

• Cession

• Reparation

Referring to the decades before the Civil War.

• Antebellum

• Reservation

• Cession

• Ratify

Land set aside for Native Americans.

• Reservation

• Census

• Reparation

• Cession

An official count of the people living in an area.

• Census

• Reparation

• Ratify

• Cession

Payment for damage and suffering.

• Reparation

• Census

• Reservation

• Cession