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Unit 5 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Veto | To prevent the passage of law |
| Judiciary | The branch of Government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice |
| Framers | A person who draws up and produces something such as constitution |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean |
| Cession | The Granting to 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 for land distribution in which a person is issued a certificate for land, hired a surveyor to mark off a plot for land , and pays the surveyor with part of the land |
| Emigrate | To leave one country and move another |
| Noble | A person with high rank and power |
| 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 ones section or region rather than the country whole |
| Tarriff | A tax imported goods |
| Resistance | An effort to stop something, like slavery |
| John Reagan | An East Texan Politician who won the election to U.S. Congress in 1887 and 1859 |
| Nullification | States' rights to 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 |
| 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 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 the Civil War |
| Amendent | Formal Changes to a document |
| Share Copper | A farm worker who works someone else's land and pays for it's use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown |
| Restriction | limits and controls put into law |
| Manumission | The freeing of slaves |
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