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unit 5 vocabyully
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |