Chapter 9 Key Terms Flashcards
Emancipation
Setting free from servitude or slavery
Chattles
An article of personal or moveable property, hence a term applied to slaves, because they were considered the personal property of their owners.
Abolitionist
An advocate of the end of slavery
Ratification
The configuration or validation of an act (such as a constitution) by authoritative approval
Speculators
Those who buy property, goods, or financial instruments not primarily for use but in anticipation of profitable resale after a general rise in value
Townships
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
Territory
In America government, an organized political entity not yet enjoying the full and equal status of a state
Annex
To make a smaller territory or political unit part of a larger one
Foreclosures
Depriving someone of the right to redeem mortgaged property because the legal payments on the loan have not been kept up
Quorum
The minimum number of persons who must be present in a group before it can conduct valid business
Anarchy
The theory that formal government is unnecessary and wrong in principle, the term is also used generally for lawlessness or antigovernment disorder
Bicameral, unicameral
Referring to a legislative body with two houses (bicameral) or one (unicameral)
Bill of rights
A list of fundamental of freedoms assumed to be central to society.
Disestablish
To separate an official state church for its connection with the government