Chapter 7 Definitions Quiz Review

Choose the correct definition of demand.

• where a consumer wants to make a good or service

• how much of a good or service consumers want and are able to buy at a certain price

• how much of a good or service a consumer wants to make

• where a consumer wants to buy a good or service

Choose the correct definition of cession.

• the formal signing of a treaty by a government

• the formal giving up of territory by a government

• the formal withdrawal from a political union by a government

• the formal addition of territory by a government

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. a payment used to persuade someone to do something, especially something illegal or immoral

• trade

• tax

• bribe

• custom

Choose the correct definition of corruption.

• legal behavior that improves government functions

• dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by people in authority like government leaders

• moral or necessary behavior, especially by people in authority like government leaders

• economic behavior that causes prices to increase

Choose the correct definition of ancestry.

• a person's education and training

• a person's achievements and goals

• a person’s family or ethnic descent

• a person's social and political beliefs

Choose the correct definition of cede.

• to give something up, especially land

• to gain something, especially land

• to give something up, especially money

• to gain something, especially money

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. someone who buys land with the hope of later selling the land for a profit

• land hunter

• land speculator

• long hunter

• long speculator

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. money that a company, organization, or government receives from people

• product

• expense

• infrastructure

• revenue

Choose the correct definition of headright system.

• a system for the distribution of land in which land formerly sold to speculators was given to the federal government

• a system for the distribution of land in which the head of a family received land for free

• a system for the distribution of land where speculators were granted large tracts of land to divide and resell

• a system for the distribution of land in which the head of a family paid less for land than a single person

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. The period following the Civil War when the Southern states were brought back into the Union (1865-1877)

• Reconstruction

• Reconfederation

• Reconciliation

• Resistance