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unit 5 vocab
Term | Definition |
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veto | to prevent the passage of a law |
framers | a person who draws up and produces something, such as a constitution |
Judiciary | the branch of the government that resolves legal issues and hands out justice |
manifest destiny | a belief that the U.S had the right and the duty to expand to the pacific ocean |
cession | granting of land by one country to another |
permanent school fund | provides money for public schools |
popular sovereignty | allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery |
negotiate | to reach an agreement through compromise |
exiled | to be forced to leave the country |
cattle rustler | a person who steals cattle and resells them for profit |
land grant system | a method of land distribution in which a person is issued a certificate for land, hires a surveyor to mark off a plot of land, and pays the surveyor with part of the land |
emigrate | to leave a country and move to another |
manumission | the freeing of slaves |
noble | a person of high rank or title |
utopia | an ideal community |
assimilate | to absorb a smaller culture or group into a larger one |
states rights | the idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
secede | to withdraw from something, such as a nation |
abolitionists | a person who wanted to end slavery |
vigilante | people who take the law into their own hands |
sectionalism | loyalty to one's section or region instead of to the country as a whole |
tariff | is a tax on an imported goods |
resistance | an effort to stop something, like slavery |
John Reagan | an East Texas Politician who won the election |
nullification | states rights to reject national laws. |
arsenal | storehouses for weapons |
blockade | the closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
unionists | people loyal to the Union during the american Civil War |
regiment | a military unit made up of several smaller groups of soldiers |
desertion | when someone leaves a post without permission and no intention of returning |
supremacy | supreme authority & power over others |
reconstruction | the federal governments plan to restore the south to the union after the civil war |
amendment | formal changes to a document |
sharecropper | a farm worker who works someone else's land and pays for its use by giving the land owner a share of the crops grown |
restriction | limits and controls put into law |