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unit 5 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Veto | to prevent the passage of a law |
Judiciary | the branch of that resolves legal distributes and hands out justice |
Framers | a person who draws up and produces something, such as a constitution |
Manifest destiny | the belief that the U.S had the right and duty to expand the pacific ocean |
cession | the granting of land by one country to another |
permanent school fund | A fund that provides money for a 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 a country |
cattle rustler | A person who steals cattle and resales them for profit |
land grant system | a method of land distribution in which a person is issued a certificate for land,hires a surveyor with part of the land |
emigrate | to leave one country or region and move to another |
noble | a person of high rank or title |
assimilate | to absorb a smaller culture or 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 |
abolitionist | a person who wanted to end slavery |
vigilante | people who take the law into their own hamds |
sectionalism | Loyalty to one's section or region instead of to the country as a whole |
tariff | A tax on an imported good |
resistance | An effort to stop something |
john regan | A Texas politician who won election to the US congress in 187 and 1859 |
nullification | the right to nullify, or reject, national laws |
arsenal | storehouse 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 american civil war |
regiment | a military unit made up of several smaller groups of soldiers |
desertion | What happens when someone leaves a post without permission and with no intention in returning |
supremacy | to have supreme authority and power |
reconstruction | the federal governments plan to restore the south of the union after civil war |
amendment | formal changes to a document |
restriction | Limits and controls put into law |
utopia | an ideal community |
manumission | the freeing slaves |
share cropper | 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 |