Unit 7 Vocabulary - Texas Statehood

Makes laws

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

to reject

• Veto

• Popular Sovereignty

• Cession

Year Texas became the 28th state

• 1821

• 1836

• 1845

GTT

• Good to Go

• Been there, done that

• Gone to Texas

Coming to live permanently in another country

• export

• immigrate

• import

Belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continents from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican Cession

Lands sold by Mexico to the US following the Mexican War

• Land Grant

• Popular Sovereignty

• Mexican Cession

Political power belongs to the people

• Popular Sovereignty

• Dictator

• Centralism

Interprets the laws

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Enforces the laws

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial