Republic of Texas Vocab

________ : to do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badly; to get revenge against someone.

• Retaliate

• Forgive

• Ignore

• Neglect

________ : the act of becoming bigger or of making something bigger; the act of expanding.

• Expansion

• Contraction

• Reduction

• Compression

________ : a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are kept.

• Archives

• Library

• Museum

• Gallery

________ : a piece of government land that a person could acquire by living on it and farming it when the western part of the U.S. was being settled.

• Homestead Act

• Land Grant

• Settlement Deed

• Pioneer Title

________ : a person, bank, or company that lends money to someone.

• Creditor

• Debtor

• Borrower

• Investor

________ : a thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.

• loan

• gift

• deposit

• investment

________ : a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery.

• abolitionist

• activist

• pacifist

• revolutionary

________:  a decision that is passed by both houses of the legislative branch

• proclamation
• resolution
• amendment
• joint resolution

________ : a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen.

• Republic

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• oligarchy

______: a document that describes the system of beliefs and laws by which a country, state, or organization is governed

• Constitution
• Regulation
• Bylaw
• Charter