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 slaves, becuase 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

bill of rights

Answer 11

a list of fundamental freedoms assumed to central to society

Question 12

disestablish

Answer 12

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