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Chapter 12 & 13
"I just don't care anymore"-Eternally Missed Muse
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8th Grade
04/01/2009

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individualism
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idea that a person should be free from government interference
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legislature
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lawmaking branch of government
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academy
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private school
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Archibald DeBow Murphey
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North Carolina reformer who fought for public education, internal improvements, and constitutional reform
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literary fund
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a fund set up by North Carolina legislatrue to establish a public school system
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David L. Swain
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elected governor of North Carolina in 1832; supported constituional reform
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Nathaniel Macon
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Democrat from eastern North Carolina who was presidnet of the Constitutional Convention of 1835
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stockade
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an enclosure or pen in which prisoners are kept
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erode
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to slowly wear away
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plantation
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a large farm on which crops are grown for sale
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economy
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the way a group of people produces goods and services
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Trail of Tears
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the tragic 1838-1839 journey of the Cherokee people from thier homeland in teh southeastern US to what today is Oklahoma, during which thousands of Cherokee died
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literary fund
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a fund set up by the NC legislature to establish a public school system
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internal improvement
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improvements within a state, such as teh construction of canals and turnpikes
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constitutional reform
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the act of changing the constitution
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Whig Party
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in the US, a party made up of those who were sympathetic to banks and internal improvements
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William Gaston
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a lawyer, legislator, and a judge, and was the most highly respected man in the state
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Edward Bishop Dudley
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first directly eleced governor of NC
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Raleigh & Gaston Railroad
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the NC protion of teh railroad taht connected teh state capitals of NC and Virginia
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Dorothea Dix
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social reformer who lobbied for teh welfare of the mentally ill
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William A. Graham
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Whig governor of NC from 1845 to 1849
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manhood suffrage
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the right of adult white males to vote, even if they didn't own property
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Calvin H. Wiley
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NC's first superintendent of common schools
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progressive
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working for political or social reforms
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charter
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a legal document that gives permission to use land for a specific purpose
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reform
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a change for the better
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Wilmington and Weldon railroad
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completed on March 7, 1840
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