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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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Methodists
Political systems; Slavery
Christian group, founded by John Wesley and his brother when they broke away from the Church of England and built the first Methodist chapel in Bristol in 1739
middle passage
Political systems; Slavery
The second stage in the transatlantic slave trade, on which ships carried enslaved Africans from Africa to either the Caribbean islands or the Americas (see also Triangular trade)
miscegenation
Political systems; Slavery
Derived from the Latin words miscere (to mix) and genus (race). Southern lawmakers passed laws making it illegal for blacks and whites to marry. These legal restrictions were ...
Mississippi Plan
Political systems; Slavery
Also known as the "shotgun policy." White Democrats living in that state in 1875 planned to use as much force as necessary to win state elections that year. Some of their violent ...
Missouri Compromise
Political systems; Slavery
A legal measure of the U.S. Congress designed to maintain the equal parity of free state and slave state representation in the U.S. Senate. The measure allowed Maine to join the ...
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