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unit 5 vocabyully
Term | Definition |
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veto | to prevent the passages of law |
judiciary | the branch of the government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice |
framers | a person that draws and produces something such a constitution |
manifest destiny | the belief that the united states had the right & duty to expand to the pacific ocean |
cession | the granting of land by one county to another |
permanent school funding | a fund that provides money to public schools |
popular sovereignty | allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slivery |
negotiate | to reach agreement through compromise |
exiled | to be forced to leave the country |
cattle rustler | a person that steals cattle & resales them for profit |
land grant system | a method of land distribution in which a person is issued a certifcate for land hires a surveyor to mark off a plot of land and pays the sureyor |
emigrate | to leave one country and move to anther |
manumission | the freeing of slavery's |
noble | a person of high rank |
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 limt the power of the federal government |
secede | to withdraw something such as a nation |
abolitionist | a perso nwho wanted to end slavey |
vigilante | people who take the law into their own hands |
sectionalism | loyallt to ones sectionor reigon rather |
tariff | a tax on imported goods |
resistance | an 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 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 |
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 |
supremacy | supreme authority & power over others |
reconstruction | the federal governments 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 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. |