Daily Vocab Quiz 3

Question 0

Egalitarian

Answer 0

asserting, resulting from, or characterized by the belief in the equality of all people

Question 1

Confederation

Answer 1

Gov. Body formed by a number of states, each retaining control of its own internal affairs (first form of gov. Before the constitution was adopted)

Question 2

Sovereignty

Answer 2

Supreme or independent power or authority in government

Question 3

Primogeniture

Answer 3

Legal requirement that, in the absence of a will, only the eldest son inherits all of a family’s property

Question 4

Agrarian

Answer 4

Related to agriculture, farmland, or a rural way of life

Question 5

Deism

Answer 5

Belief based on reason in a God who created the universe according to natural laws and then abandoned it, leaving no room for supernatural influence of revelation

Question 6

Anarchy

Answer 6

Political and social disorder due to the absence of gov. Control

Question 7

Apportionment

Answer 7

Act of determining the number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives according to the proportion of the population of each state to the total US population

Question 8

Faction

Answer 8

Group or clique within a larger group concerned with their own interests

Question 9

Insurrection

Answer 9

Act or instance of rising in revolt against civil authority or an established gov.

Question 10

Demagogue

Answer 10

Political leader who appeals to people’s fears and emotions rather than using rational arguments

Question 11

Interstate commerce

Answer 11

Exchange of goods or commodities existing or occurring within the boundaries of a state, esp. US

Question 12

Impressment

Answer 12

Act or policy of seizing people or property for public service or use. Forcing me by to become sailors

Question 13

Cabal

Answer 13

Small group of secret plotters, we against a gov. Or person in authority

Question 14

Sedition

Answer 14

Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a gov.

Question 15

Squatter

Answer 15

Person who settled on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent

Question 16

Judicial review

Answer 16

Power of a court to adjudicate (judge) the constitutionality of gov. Laws or the acts of gov. Officials

Question 17

Writ

Answer 17

In law, any formal document in letter form under seal and in sovereigns name

Question 18

Embargo

Answer 18

Legal or official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country

Question 19

Nullify

Answer 19

To render or declared legally void

Question 20

Gerrymandering

Answer 20

Dividing of a state into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength Of the opposition party into as few districts as possible

Question 21

Era of good feelings

Answer 21

Period of from democratic republicans, roughly corresponding to the presidency of Monroe durin which the Federalist Party collapsed and nationalism was boosted

Question 22

Sectionalism

Answer 22

Excessive regard for regional or local interests

Question 23

Abomination

Answer 23

Anything greatly disliked, hated

Question 24

Mandate

Answer 24

The authority to carry out a policy or course of action

Question 25

Infrastructure

Answer 25

System of public works in a country or region

Question 26

Commercial agriculture

Answer 26

Growing crops for sale in the market, as business

Question 27

Subsistence agriculture

Answer 27

Growing crops to feed the farmer and his family