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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 |
| 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 weather 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 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 to mark off a plot of land and pays the surveyor with part of the land |
| emigrate | to leave one country or reigion and move to another |
| manumission | the freeing of slaves |
| noble | a person of high rank or title |
| utopia | an ideal community |
| assimillate | to absorb a simular culture or group into a larger one |
| states' rights | the idea that the 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 ones section or region instead of to the country as a whole |
| tariff | a tax on an imported good |
| reisistance | an effort to stop something |
| john reagan | an east Texas Politician wo won the election to U.S. Congress in 1857 and 1859 |
| nullification | states' rights to reject national laws |
| arsenal | store house for weapons |
| blockade | the closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| unionists | people who are 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 their assigned military post without permission and has no intention of returning |
| supremacy | supreme authority and power over others |
| reconstruction | the federal governments plan to restore the South to the Union after 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 crops grown |
| restriction | limits and controls put to law |
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