Unit 5-6 Vocabulary

The tax was designed to be a _____________ because other countries were importing cloth that was less expensive than the domestic brands.

• Civil Disobedience

• Abomination

• Nullification

• Protective Tariff

extending or going across a continent

• Transcontinental

• Manifest Destiny

• Annexation

• Cession

Certain pieces of land were obtained by the United States when another nation decided to __________ that land to us.

• cede

• annex

• territory

• transcontinental

the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.

• Transcontinental

• Annexation

• Cede

• Manifest Destiny

To add a territory to one's own territory

• Cede

• Annex

• Cession

• Manifest Destiny

The right to vote

• Nullification

• Suffrage

• Cession

• Civil Disobedience

After the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson rewarded many loyal supporters with government positions through the _________________.

• Spoils System

• Protective Tariffs

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Civil Disobedience

The use of nonviolent protests to challenge a government or its laws; the refusal to obey laws considered unjust

• Suffrage

• Annexation

• Civil Disobedience

• Manifest Destiny

a legal theory that a state has the right to void, or invalidate, any federal laws in which they deem unconstitutional

• Suffrage

• Nullification

• Protective Tariff

• Spoils System

an organized division of a country that is not yet admitted to the full rights of a state.

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental

• Cession

• Territory