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Unit 5 Vocabulary
| 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 such a constitution |
| Manifest destiny | The belief that the United States had the right & duty to expand the Pacific Ocean |
| cession | The granting of land by one country to another |
| Permanent School Fund | a fund that provides money to public schools |
| Popular Sovereignty | allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not to prevent slavery |
| negotiate | to reach an agreement through compromise |
| exiled | to be forced to leave the country |
| cattle rustler | A person who steals cattle & 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 region and move to another |
| manumission | the freeing of slaves |
| noble | a person of high rank or title |
| utopia | an ideal community |
| assimilate | to absorb 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 withdrawal from something, such as a nation |
| abolitionists | 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 as a whole |
| 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 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 & 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 for 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 |
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