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The organisation and interaction of the members that make up the governing power of a social community or state.
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Political systems; Slavery
A simplified language developed as a result of colonialism. As the Caribbean islands were colonized their populations grew to include Europeans, Africans and Indians. The fact ...
plantation
Political systems; Slavery
A large area of farmland, or estate, planted with particular crops.
plantocracy
Political systems; Slavery
The successful settlers who developed plantations in the Caribbean; the name combines their local rank and the status to which they aspired.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Political systems; Slavery
In this Supreme Court decision issued in 1896, the doctrine of "separate but equal" was ruled to be Constitutional. This ruling protected the South's "Jim Crow" laws for nearly 60 ...
poll tax
Political systems; Slavery
One of two legal strategies used by Southerners to keep black people and poor whites from voting. (See literacy tests.) When a person registered to vote, he or she became eligible ...
polygenism
Political systems; Slavery
Theory that all human races are separate species. This idea, long the dominant theory of northern scientists in the United States during the nineteenth century, has been proved ...
popular sovereignty
Political systems; Slavery
Idea proposed by Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan during the debate over the Wilmot Proviso in 1846. According to this doctrine, states wishing to enter the Union should decide the ...
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