Chapter 9 - 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 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

Townships

Answer 5

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 6

Territory

Answer 6

In American Government, an organized political entity not yet enjoying the full and equal status of a state.

Question 7

Annex

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Quorum

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Anarchy

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Bicameral

Answer 10

Referring to a legislative body with two houses

Question 11

Unicameral

Answer 11

Referring to a legislative body with one house.

Question 12

Bill of Rights

Answer 12

A list of fundamental freedoms assumed to be central to society.

Question 13

Disestablish

Answer 13

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