Political systems

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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Hayes-Tilden Compromise

Political systems; Slavery

Also called the Compromise of 1877. In the presidential election of 1876, former Civil War general Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Samuel J. Tilden, a wealthy New York corporation ...

hierarchy

Political systems; Slavery

System of grades or status ranked above the other.

holocaust

Political systems; Slavery

From the Greek word meaning 'burnt offering' it is primarily used to refer to the Nazi German extermination of Jewish (and other) people in central Europe during World War II.

homeward passage

Political systems; Slavery

The third stage in the transatlantic slave trade with ships carrying items grown or made in the Caribbean or the Americas, such as sugar or tobacco, to Europe to sell (see also ...

homogenous

Political systems; Slavery

Uniform, all of the same kind.

Howard University

Political systems; Slavery

A university founded by Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, a veteran of heavy fighting at Gettysburg. General Howard, the first commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, started ...