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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 | the person who produces something such as constitution |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that US had the right & duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean |
| Cession | the granting of land from 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 permit slavery |
| negotiate | to reach an agreement through compromise |
| exiled | to be forced to leave the country |
| Cattle rustler | a person who steals cattle and resale 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 plat 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 | the person of high rank or title |
| utopia | an ideal community |
| assimilate | to absorb a smaller culture or group into a larger one |
| states' right | the idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
| secede | to withdraw from something such as a nation |
| abolitionists | a person who wanted to end slavery |
| vigilante | people who take 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 Regan | an East Politician who won the election to US congress in 1857 and 1859 |
| Nullification | states' rights to reject national law |
| arsenal | storehouse for weapon |
| blockade | the closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| unionist | people loyal to the union during the American Civil War |
| regiment | a military unit made up of several smaller groups of soldier |
| desertion | when someone leaves their assigned military post without permission and has no intention of coming back |
| supremacy | supreme authority & power over others |
| reconstruction | the federal government 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 control put into law |
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