Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
unit 5 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 up and produces something. such as a constitution. |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States had the right and the 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 contry |
| cattle rustler | a person who steals cattle |
| land grant system | a method of land distrbution 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 a part of land |
| emigrate | to leave one country or region and moves 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 large 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 hands |
| sectionalism | loyal to ones section or region instead of to a country |
| tariff | a tax on a imported good |
| resistance | effort to stop something |
| John Reagan | was elected to the U.S. congress as a representantive from eastern texas. he supported runnels over houston |
| nullification | every state having the right to nullify, or reject, national laws |
| arsenal | storehouses or weapons |
| blockade | the closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and 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 | something that happens when someone leaves a post without permission and with no intention of returning |
| supremacy | whites would have supreme authority and power |
| reconstruction | the federal government plan to restore the south to the union after the civil war |
| amendment | formal changes to a document |
| share cropper | a farm worker who works someone elses land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown |
| restriction | limits and controls put into law |
Created by:
user-1714342
Popular History sets