Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution

Question 1

Emancipation

Answer 1

Setting free from servitude or slavery

Question 2

Chattels

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Abolitionist

Answer 3

An advocated of the end of slavery

Question 4

Ratification

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Speculators

Answer 5

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 6

Townships

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Territory

Answer 7

In American government, 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 union part of a larger one.

Question 9

Foreclosures

Answer 9

Depriving someone of the right to redeem mortgaged property because the legal payments on the loan have not been kept up.

Question 10

Quorum

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Anarchy

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Bicameral, unicameral

Answer 12

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

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.