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Debate vocabulary
Constitutional Convention words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| trader | a person who buys and sells goods with other goods |
| prohibit | to forbid |
| abolitionist | a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery |
| taxes | money paid by people for support of government and cost of public works and services |
| abolish | to get rid of |
| resolve | to clear up any unsettled matters; to make up one's mind;decide |
| slavery | enslaved Africans shipped to the Americas to work on plantations |
| Iroquois | powerful confederacy of 5 nations = 6 American Indian tribes |
| indentured servant | laborer who agreed to work without pay for an amount of time to pay his way to the U.S. |
| merchant | person who buys and sells for profit |
| fugitive | runaway; a person who runs from the law |
| convention | a meeting of members or delegates from various places held every year or so |
| unfair | not fair; unjust |
| Bill of Rights | guarantee of certain freedoms and legal protection to states' citizens |
| plantation owner | large farm owners who used slaves to grow crops; great wealth |
| wealthy | riches; having things with monetary value |
| just | in accordance with what is right and honest; fair |
| justice | fairness in the way people are treated or decisions are made |
| property | a piece of land or real estate; thing or things owned |
| suffrage | women having the right to vote |
| Constitution | written formal plan of government |