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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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slavery

Political systems; Slavery

The institution that kept people as property, and submissive to work under the domination of others.

smallpox

Political systems; Slavery

Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, with fever and pustules, and with a high death rate; now eradicated world-wide.

snow

Political systems; Slavery

Small two mast, square-rigged sailing ship, similar to a brig.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Political systems; Slavery

Founded in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia, by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, the Conference sought to attain equal rights for blacks and other minorities through non-violent ...

Spingarn Medal

Political systems; Slavery

Award given to an outstanding black American each year. Joel Elias Spingarn, a white leader of the NAACP instituted the medal in 1914.

stalwarts

Political systems; Slavery

Radical Republicans of the Reconstruction era who supported Ulysses S. Grant for a third term as President and the more repressive measures of Reconstruction of the South. They ...

states' rights doctrine

Political systems; Slavery

Before the Civil War and well into the twentieth century, Southerners have believed that their state governments had the right to block or overrule any Federal legislation with ...