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Political systems
The organisation and interaction of the members that make up the governing power of a social community or state.
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cakewalk
Political systems; Slavery
According to Harriet Janis and Rudi Blesh in They All Played Ragtime, the cakewalk originated in the Antebellum period among slaves wishing to mock the high strutting ways of ...
carib
Political systems; Slavery
Indigenous people who inhabited the Caribbean islands and parts of the neighboring mainland.
Caribbean
Political systems; Slavery
The islands off the east coast of North, Central and South America that were called the West Indies by Columbus.
carnival
Political systems; Slavery
Initially a festival preceding the Catholic season of Lent (a period of fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter weekend); now refers to general annual festivities, usually with a ...
carpetbaggers
Political systems; Slavery
Term applied to Northerners coming to the South to run schools for the freedmen, to reorganize political institutions in the South, or to conduct business. The name was derived ...
Chartism
Political systems; Slavery
A populist reform movement of the 1830s-40s, which set out a manifesto called The People's Charter aimed at increasing the rights of the working classes.
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