Ch 9: The Confederation and the Constitution

Question 1

Emancipation

Answer 1

setting free from servitude or slavery

Question 2

Chattel

Answer 2

an article of personal or movable property; hence a term applied to slaves, since they were considered personal property of their owners.

Question 3

Abolitionist

Answer 3

an advocate of the end of slavery

Question 4

Ratification

Answer 4

the official confirmation or validation of a provisional governing document or act by authoritative approval

Question 5

Bill of Rights

Answer 5

a document guaranteeing certain fundamental freedoms assumed to be central to society

Question 6

Speculators (speculation)

Answer 6

those who buy property, goods, or financial instruments not primarily to use them, but in anticipation of profitab;e resale after general rise in value

Question 7

Township

Answer 7

in America, a surveyed territory six miles square; the term also refers to a unit of local government, smaller than a county, that is often based on these survey units

Question 8

Territory

Answer 8

in American government, an organized political entity not yet enjoying the full and equal status of a state

Question 9

Annex

Answer 9

to incorporate a smaller territory or political unit into a larger one

Question 10

Foreclosure

Answer 10

seizing private, mortgaged property from the owner because the legal payments on the loan have not been kept up

Question 11

Quorum

Answer 11

the minimum number of persons who must be present in a group before it can conduct valid business

Question 12

Anarchy

Answer 12

the theory that formal government in unnecessary an wrong in principle; the term is also used generally for lawlessness or anti-governmental disorder

Question 13

Bicameral, Unicameral

Answer 13

referring to a legislative body with two houses (bicameral) or one (unicameral)

Question 14

Disestablish

Answer 14

To separate an official state church from its connection with the government.