23 Flashcards

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Forged the Tories into the modern conservative party.

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Irish settlers who owned large estates but didn’t love there

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Absentee landlords

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High tariffs on imported grain

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British corn laws

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One of Britain’s 2 major parties. Formed by socialists and union members.

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British labour party

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Crimes punishable by death. Ex: murder, shoplifting, sheep stealing, an impersonating an army veteran.

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Capital offense

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Rallied Irish members of parliament to press for home rule.

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Charles Stewart Parnell

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Alliances of various parties

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Coalition

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The body of people allowed to vote.

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Electorate

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Local self government

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Home rule

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Rural towns that lost so many people that they had few or no voters

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Rotten Boroughs

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Allowed people to cast their votes without announcing them publicly

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Secret ballot

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Led the Whigs who evolved into liberal party

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William Gladstone

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Herzl helped launch this movement devoted ti rebuilding a jewish state in Palestine.

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Zionism

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After reform act of 1832 rural or urban workers demanded more radical change. This petition demanded universal male suffrage ,annual parliamentary elections and salaries for members of parliment

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Chartist movement

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“The Liberator” Organized an irish catholic league and held mass meetings to demand repeal of unfair laws. Goal was to get irish land for the irish

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Daniel O’ Connell

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1830 Whigs (middle class/business) and tories (nobles land owner) battling over a bill to reform parliament. Eliminated rotten boroughs.

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Great Reform Act

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During Dreyfus affair (political scandal that caused deep divisions in France between royalist, liberals,republicans) (conviction of Alfred Dreyfus) This French novelist joined battle and wrote article “j accuse” he charged the army with suppressing the truth and was convicted of libel

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Emile Zola

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Suffragist believed only aggressive task would work and other radicalsin parliament “votes for women”. Collected petitions and organized public demonstrations and had no results so some women resulted to being violent and smashed windows and burned buildings

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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Hungarian Jewish journalist lived in France called Jews to form a separate state where they would have rights. He launched modern zionism

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Theodor Herzl

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An Austrian Hapsburg prince that Napoleon tried to put on the throne of Mexico in 1860

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Prince Maximilian

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An Austrian Hapsburg prince that Napoleon tried to put on the throne of Mexico in 1860

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Prince Maximilian