Vocabulary Practice Flashcards

Flashcards based on lecture quiz vocabulary covering literary, political, historical, and social terms.

elegiac

mournful or sad tone

colonialism

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

agrarianism

when individuals attach themselves to farming and a rural way of life

Manifest destiny

belief that the United States had a "God-given" right to aggressively spread their values and expand the nation.

bureaucrats

an official in a government department, in particular one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.