Lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or trim in appearance.

Wasted away; weakened.

Clear without needing explanation.

A group with a distinct political interest.

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

To have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend.

Suppression of the rights and liberties of a minority by the majority.

A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power

A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office

A change to the Constitution

The first ten amendments to the Constitution

A First Amendment provision that prohibits government from interfering with the practice of religion.

Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass

to rejoice greatly

Complicated network of winding passages; a maze

Rude and disrespectful

Brief and to the point.

Make more noticeable or prominent.

Extremely strange, unusual, atypical.

Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition.

Statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it.

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth (1809-1865)

(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.

Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico.

United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North

System of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada.