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Push-pull factors
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The push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location.
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Population density
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Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, humans in particular.
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Free enterprise
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Business governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy.
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Democracy
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Democracy describes a small number of related forms of government and also a political philosophy.
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Culture
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Culture generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance.
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Sectionalism
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Sectionalism is a tendency among sections of a country to develop a distinct identity based on ethnicity, customs, laws, language, economics, or culture.
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Nationalism
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Nationalism is a term referring to doctrine or political movement that holds that a nation, usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture, has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community based on a shared history and common destiny.
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Dred Scott Decision
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Dred Scott was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1856.
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Ideology
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A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other systems.
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