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Amend | make minor changes in order to make it fairer, more accurate, or more up-to-date. |
Armory | a place where weapons are kept. |
Broadside | a strongly worded critical attack. |
Charter | a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power |
Guerrilla | a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting |
Inalienable | unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor. |
Ordinance | a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority. |
Reminiscence | a story told about a past event remembered by the narrator. |
Representative Government | An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns |
Revenue | income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature |
Secede | withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. |
Segregate | set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide. |
Squatter | person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land. |
Veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |
Medicine Lodge | county seat of Barber County |
Lawrence | an attack on lawernce |
Fort Leavenworth | Army installation l |
Sterling Price | a soldier, lawyer, planter, and politician |
Charles Robinson | first Governor |
Black Kettle | leader of the Southern Cheyenne |
Cyrus K. Holliday | founders of the township of Topeka, Kansas |
James Lane | a strong supporter of the American Civil War. |