Anthony of Padua: A Franciscan friar from Portugal who lived from 1195-1231 and was famous for his skill in preaching and working miracles.

Bobolink: a type of blackbird that was common in the rice fields of the Southern United States and used as a main source of food in the Confederacy as supplies dwindled and the economy was ruined by the Civil War.

Daguerrotype: an early form of photograph that was printed on a thin sheet of silver.

Dominic: a Spanish priest who lived from 1170 to 1221, founder of the Dominican order of friars.

Fire-Eater: extremist Southerns who were advocating secession from the United States as early 1850.

Gabriel’s Trump: from the legend that the archangel Gabriel will blow a trumpet to announce the second coming of Christ to earth and raise the dead to life.

Hambletonian: See Book 1 Terms

John Masias: a Spanish-born Dominican friar (1585-1645) who moved to Peru and lived in Lima, where he worked with the poor.

Ku Klux Klan: a white supremacist paramilitary group that worked during Reconstruction to prevent African-Americans from exercising their new rights as citizens

Know-Nothing Party: nickname of the American Party because its adherents were told to respond “I know nothing” to inquires about its activity. It was a third party political organization in the 1840s that was against immigration and Catholicism.

Prohibitionist: someone who believes that the production, importation, and sale of alcohol should be illegal

Radical: Republicans who believed in African-American political equality after the abolition of slavery.

Razorback: a feral pig

Redeemer: Democrats in the Southern states following the Civil War who tried to prevent the new state governments from reforming in accordance with federal dictates and worked to oust Republican politicians from office

Scalawag: Southerners who supported the Republican Party and their Reconstruction policies following the Civil War

Vigilantes: an unofficial group who organize to stop crime

Wade Hampton’s Red Shirts: after the KKK was disbanded, its adherents reformed into other groups, among them Wade Hampton’s Red Shirts, which was also a white supremacist paramilitary group in South Carolina that used illegal and often violent, even fatal, means to ensure the election of Democrats to office in the 1870s. Different Red Shirt groups were also active in other states.

Weeping Woman (La Llorona) Mexican Story: Read the full tale here.