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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 out hand justice. |
| Framers | A person who draws up and produces something such as 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 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. |
| Cattel rustler | A person who steals cattle and sell 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 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 ranking or title |
| 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 limit power of the federal government. |
| Seced | To withdrawal from something such as a nation. |
| Abolitilnists | A person wanting 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 regan | An east texas politician who won U.S congress in 1857 and 1859. |
| Nulliffication | States' rights to reject national laws. |
| Arsenal | Storehouse for weapons. |
| Blockade | The closing of a port by positing 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 someone else's land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the grown crops. |
| Restriction | Limits and controls put into law. |