Glossary

  • authority

    The power granted to a branch of government or state governments.

  • Bipartisan

    involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties.

  • Bloodletting

    The purposeful removal of a patient’s blood in an effort to promote healing.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Alabama Highway Patrol troopers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators who were marching outside Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965.

  • Boarding houses

    A house providing food and lodging for paying guests.

  • Briefs

    A written legal argument submitted to the court.

  • Cabinet

    A group of high ranking officials from the executive branch who advise the President.

  • California Gold Rush

    after news of James W. Marshall’s discovery of gold in Coloma, California, spread, 300,000 people rushed to the state in hopes of discovering gold.

  • Camaraderie

    Mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.

  • Caroline Affair

    (1837-1842) A foreign relations crisis caused when citizens in the United States supported a Canadian Independence movement against Great Britain.