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Ch 12 Vocabulary
North Carolina in the American Experience McDougall Littell 2008
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| individualism | idea that a person should be free from government interference |
| legislature | lawmaking branch of government |
| academy | a private school |
| Archibald DeBow Murphy | North Carolina reformer who fought for public education, internal improvements, and constitutional reform |
| literary fund | a fund set up by North Carolina legislature to establish a public school system |
| Whig Party | political party whose members favored banks and internal improvements |
| David L. Swain | elected governor of North Carolina in 1832; supported constitutional reform |
| Nathaniel Macon | Democrat from eastern North Carolina who was president of the Constitution Convention of 1835 |
| stockade | an enclosure or pen in which prisoners are kept |
| erode | to slowly wear away |
| plantation | a large farm on which crops are grown for sale |