Chapter 9 Flashcards
Emancipation
Setting free from servitude or slavery
Chattels
An article or personal or movable property
Abolitionist
And advocate of the end of slavery
Speculators
Those who buy property goods or financial instruments not primarily for use but in anticipation of profitable to resale after a general rise in value
Townships
And then there a survey territory 6 mile Square
Territory
In American government and organized political entity not yet enjoying the full in equal status of a state
Annex
To make a smaller territory or political unit part of a larger one
Quorum
The minimum number of persons who must be present in a group before it can conduct valid business
Anarchy
The the theory that formal government is unnecessary and wrong in principle
Bicameral
Referring to a legislative body with two houses
Unicameral
Referring to a legislative body with one house
Bill of rights
A list of fundamental freedoms assumed to be central to society
Disestablish
Two separate in official state church from its connection with the government