APUSH Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

Vagrancy

Answer 1

The state of wandering idly without a permanent home or employment

Question 2

Debacle

Answer 2

A general breakup or dispersion; sudden downfall or rout

Question 3

Demographics

Answer 3

category populations

Question 4

Dispersed

Answer 4

to separate, scatter, spread widely

Question 5

Benign

Answer 5

having a kindly disposition/gracious/nice

Question 6

Latent

Answer 6

present but not visible, inactive, remaining dormant, hidden

Question 7

Habeas Corpus

Answer 7

a court order that requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or jury to determine whether or not the imprisonment was unlawful

Question 8

Dissedent

Answer 8

disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief

Question 9

Proxy

Answer 9

the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another

Question 10

Beleagured

Answer 10

to surround with militia, or with troubles

Question 11

Entrepreneurs

Answer 11

people who organize and manage any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk

Question 12

Aristocratic

Answer 12

relating to or characteristic of something that is elegant or stylish in appearance and behaviour

Question 13

Avarice

Answer 13

insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

Question 14

Vice

Answer 14

an immoral or evil practice

Question 15

Husbandry

Answer 15

the cultivation and production of edible crops or animals for food (farming)

Question 16

Misogynistic

Answer 16

reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women

Question 17

Mortality Rate

Answer 17

how many people die/death rate

Question 18

Catalyst

Answer 18

person or thing that precipitates an event or change

Question 19

Conspicuously

Answer 19

able to attract attention

Question 20

Unicameral

Answer 20

having a single legislature chamber

Question 21

Proprietorship

Answer 21

one granted ownership of a colony (as one of the original American colonies) and full prerogatives of establishing a government and distributing land

Question 22

Imbedded

Answer 22

to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix

Question 23

Incurred

Answer 23

to become liable or subject to

Question 24

Orthodoxy

Answer 24

sticking to the accepted norms, usually in religion

Question 25

Enumerated

Answer 25

mentioning numerous things one at a time

Question 26

Homogeneous

Answer 26

of the same or a similar kind or nature