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Unit 5 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| veto | to prevent the passage of a law |
| judiciary | the branch of government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice |
| framers | a person who draws up and produces something |
| manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expend to the Pacific Ocean |
| cession | the granting of land by one country to another |
| permanent school fund | a fund that provides money for public schools |
| popular sovereignty | allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not they permit slavery |
| negotiate | to reach an agreement through compromise |
| exiled | to be forced to leave the country |
| cattle rustler | a person who steals cattle |
| 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 one country or region and move to another |
| manumission | the freeing of slaves |
| noble | a person of a high rank or title |
| utopia | an ideal community |
| assimilate | to absorb a smaller culture or group into a larger one |
| state's 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 hands |
| sectionalism | loyalty to one's section or religion instead of to the country as a whole |
| tariff | a tax on an imported good |
| resistance | an effort to stop something |
| John Reagan | representative from eastern Texas who was elected into Congress |
| nullification | the right of each state to nullify, or 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 intent on returning |
| supremacy | supreme authority and power |
| reconstruction | refers to the federal government's 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 landowner a share of the crops grown |
| restriction | limits and controls put into law |
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