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April 20, 1824: Alfred Colquitt Born Vocabulary Word Part of Speech Definition Imposing Adjective Impressive, large and dignified Ivy League Noun Confederate Noun a group of prestigious and respected universities in the northeastern United States consisting of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale a supporter or soldier of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War Rank Noun Sectional Crisis Noun Staunch Adjective Showing loyalty, dependability, and enthusiasm States Righter Noun Secession A person who believed in the powers of the individual states as opposed to those of the Federal government Noun Redeemed Verb the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern States in 1860-1861 that led to the formation of the Confederacy and the beginning of the Civil War to do something that changes a negative opinion to a positive one an official title or category that shows the holder's relative importance or seniority within an organization, especially a military force During the 1850s, sectional differences within the United States, largely about slavery, grew wider as the country's leaders debated whether to allow slavery to expand into the western territories and as criticism of slavery intensified in some free states. www.todayingeorgiahistory.org Bourbon Triumvirate Noun The term Bourbon Triumvirate refers to Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politicians of the post-Reconstruction era: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon. This trio practically held a lock on the state's U.S. Senate seats and governor's office from 1872 to 1890 www.todayingeorgiahistory.org