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Chapter 5 Vocab

TermDefinition
Veto To prevent the passage of a law.
Judiciary The branch of the government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice.
Framers Person who draws up and produces something such as a constitution.
Manifest 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 & resales them for profit.
Land Grant System 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 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 region instead of the country as a whole.
Tariff Tax on imported goods.
Resistance Effort to stop something, like slavery.
John Reagan An East Texas Politician who won the election to U.S. Congress in 1857 and 1859.
Nullification states' rights to nullify or reject national laws.
Arsenal Storehouses for weapons.
Blockade 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 Military unit made up of several smaller groups of soldiers.
Desertion Happens when someone leaves their post without permission and intention or returning.
Supremacy Supreme authority and power over others.
Reconstruction Federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.
Amendment Formal changes to a document.
Sharecropper 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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