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| idea that a person should be free from government interference |
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| lawmaking branch of government |
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| North Carolina reformer who fought for public education, internal improvements, and constitutional reform |
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| a fund set up by North Carolina legislatrue to establish a public school system |
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| elected governor of North Carolina in 1832; supported constituional reform |
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| Democrat from eastern North Carolina who was presidnet of the Constitutional Convention of 1835 |
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| an enclosure or pen in which prisoners are kept |
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| a large farm on which crops are grown for sale |
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| the way a group of people produces goods and services |
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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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| a fund set up by the NC legislature to establish a public school system |
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| improvements within a state, such as teh construction of canals and turnpikes |
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| the act of changing the constitution |
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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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| a lawyer, legislator, and a judge, and was the most highly respected man in the state |
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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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| social reformer who lobbied for teh welfare of the mentally ill |
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| Whig governor of NC from 1845 to 1849 |
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| the right of adult white males to vote, even if they didn't own property |
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| NC's first superintendent of common schools |
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| working for political or social reforms |
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| a legal document that gives permission to use land for a specific purpose |
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| Wilmington and Weldon railroad |
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| completed on March 7, 1840 |
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