Terms Chapter 9

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 slashes 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(speculation)

Answer 4

Those who buy property, good, or financial instrument 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 large 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 a formal government is unnecessary and wrong in principle; the term is also used generally for lawlessness or anti-governmental disorder

Question 10

Bicameral, unicameral

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Bill of rights

Answer 11

A list of fundamental freedoms assumed to be central to society

Question 12

Disestablish

Answer 12

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