Chapter 9 Key Terms

Question 1

Emancipation

Answer 1

Setting free from servitude or slavery

Question 2

Chattels

Answer 2

An article of personal or moveable property; hence a term applied to slaves, because they were considered personal property of their owners

Question 3

Abolitionist

Answer 3

An advocate of the end of slavery

Question 4

Speculators

Answer 4

Those who buy property, goods, or financial instruments not primarily for use but in anticipation of profitable resale after a general rise in value

Question 5

Ratification

Answer 5

The confirmation or validation of an act (such as a constitution) by authoritative approval

Question 6

Townships

Answer 6

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 7

Territory

Answer 7

An organized political entity not yet enjoying the full and equal status of a state

Question 8

Annex

Answer 8

To make a smaller territory or political unit part of a larger one

Question 9

Quorum

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Anarchy

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Bicameral

Answer 11

Referring to a legislative body with 2 houses

Question 12

Unicameral

Answer 12

Referring to a legislative body with 1 house

Question 13

Bill of rights

Answer 13

A list of fundamental freedoms assumed to be central to society

Question 14

Disestablish

Answer 14

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