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unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Veto | to prevent the passage of a law |
| Judiciary | the branch of the government that resolves legal disputes and hands put justice |
| Framers | a person who draw and productes something such as a constitution |
| Cession | the granting of land by one country to another |
| Permant School fund | a fund that provides money to public schools |
| popular Sovereignty | allowing states to decide for themselfves whether or not to permit slavery |
| negotiate | to reach an agreement through compromise |
| exiled | to be forced to leave country |
| Cattle rusher | a person who steal cattles & resales the for profit |
| Land Grant System | a method of land distribution in which a person is issued a certifiacate for land hires a surveyor to mark off a plot of land and pays the suveyor |
| Emigrate | to leave one country or region andmove to another one |
| manuission | the freeing 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 right | a idea that stateshave the right to limit the power of the federal government |
| secede | to withdraw from something such as a nation |
| abolitonists | a person who wanted to end slavery |
| vigilante | people who take the law into their own hands |
| sectionalism | Loyalt to ones section or region rather than the country |
| tariff | a tax on imported good |
| resistance | an effort to stop something like slavery |
| john reagan | a East texas Politcian who won the election to u.s. congress in 1857 and 1859. |
| Nullification | states rights to reject national law |
| arsenal | storehouse for weapons |
| blockade | the closing of a port by positionting ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| unionists | people loyal to the union during the american civil war |
| regiments | military unit made up of several smaller groups of soldiers |
| desertion | when people leave their assigned military post without permision. |
| supremacy | supreme authority& power over other |
| reconsturtction | the fedral government plans 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 land and pay for its use by giveing the landower a share of the crops grown |
| restriction | limits and controls put into law. |
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