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Unit 5 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Veto | To prevent the passage of a law |
Judiciary | The branch of the government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice |
Framers | A person who draws and produces something, such as a constitution |
Mainifest Destiny | The belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand 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 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 |
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 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 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 region instead of to the country as a whole |
Tariff | A tax on an imported good |
Resistance | An effort to stop something |
John Reagan | A Congress representative from eastern Texas |
Nullification | An idea that claims each state had a 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 |
Unionist | 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 with no intention of returning |
Supremacy | When whites would have supreme authority and power |
Reconstruction | The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War |
Amendment | Formal changes to a document |
Sharecropper | A farmer 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 |