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What strongly affected Europe and its colonies

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Democratic Ideals

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Who expanded their borders

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United States

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What changed daily life

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technology and science

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Who underwent democratic reforms

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Great Britain and France

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Who did vote limit too in the early 1800’s

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only to men with substantial property

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Who could not vote at all

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Women

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Who ran the government

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upper classes

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What is the right to vote

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suffrage

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What movement expanded suffrage and reform politics

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Chartist movement

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What did the Chartist movement demand for

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suffrage for all men, secret vote and Parliamentary reforms

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What rejected at first but eventually adopted Chartist goals

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Parliament

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Who ruled for 64 years at height of British power

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Queen Victoria

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Who did Queen Victoria lose power too

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Parliament

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Who ran the government almost completely

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prime minister

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What did many women organize

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the right to vote

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16
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Did all women want the right to vote

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no

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Who formed Women’s social and Political Union

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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After 1903, what did WSPU members do

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protest, go to jail, and stage hunger strikes

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When did women win suffrage in Britain and U.S.

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after World War

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Who changed their government repeatedly after Franco-Prussian War

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France

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What was the french government formed in 1875, and lasted 60 years

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Third Republic

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Who was a spy controversy over Jewish officer in French Army

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Dreyfus Affair

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What is the prejudice against jews/ it is strong in much of Europe

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Anti-Semitism

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Did the government ever declare Dreyfus innocent

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Yes

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What is the name of the movement for Jewish homeland/ grows after Dreyfus Affair
Zionism
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Who allowed self-rule in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand but delays it for Ireland
Britain
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Who was Canada originally home to
Native American people
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What two countries did Canada split into
English (upper) and French (lower)
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Who demanded more reform, producing rebellions in 1830's
Middle class
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Who approved Lord Durham's changes allowing more self-rule
Parliament
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Who wanted a central government to protect interests against U.S.
Canadians
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What is self-governing but part of British Empire
Dominion
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Who was the first prime minister of Canada
John MacDonald
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Where did John expand Canada too
Pacific
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What did John build
transcontinental railroad
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who claimed New Zealand and part of Australia
Captain Cook
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Who are native people of New Zealand
Maori
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Who are native people of Australia
Aborigines
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Who was an actor, director, and of Maori Descent
Taika Watiti
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Who started colonizing Australia and made it a penal colony
Britian
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What is a place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences
Penal colony
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Could prisoners buy land and settle when they were released
Yes
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What animal did settlers introduce
sheep
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What became a major export
wool
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Who recognized Maori land rights until conflicts in 1839
Britian
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Who got limited self-rule
Australia and New Zealand
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Who were the first to use the secret ballot
Australians
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What was the first nation to grant women suffrage
New Zealand
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Who killed many Maori and Aborigines
Colonists
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What else killed people
European diseases
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What lead into domination of Ireland
English expansion
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Who resent English laws favoring Protestants
Irish Catholic majority
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Who depended heavily on potatoes for nourishment
Irish peasants
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What destroyed entire crop
potato famine
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How many people died in the potato famine
1 million
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Where did millions from Ireland flee to
U.S, Canada, Australia, Britian
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Who staged failed Easter uprising in 1916
Frustrated Irish nationalists
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What was an unofficial military force seeking independence
Irish Republican Army
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When Ireland Split, did Northern Ireland remain part of Britain
Yes
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What did the south part of Ireland become
Irish Free State, and then Republic of Ireland
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What is local control over internal affairs
Home rule
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Why was home rule being granted postponed
World War I
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who patents over 1,000 inventions in research laboratory; creator of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
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Who invented the telephone and radio
Bell and Marconi
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Who developed the first working airplane
The Wright Bros.
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Who invented the first automobile
Germans
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How did Henry Ford lower costs
Assembly line
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What is one task per worker
Assembly line
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Who discovered the existence of bacteria while observing fermentation
Louis Pasteur
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What did Louis figure about bacteria
it could cause disease
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Who links bacteria to surgical problems
Joseph Lister
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What reduced deaths from infection
Sterilizing instruments
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What did Medical researcher develop
vaccines
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What did cities improve
sanitation
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What did Darwin's idea of natural selection say
competition elevates fittest, fittest then breed, their offspring share their advantages
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What is species change slowly through natural selection
Theory of evolution
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Who discovered patterns to inherited traits
Gregor Mendel
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What did Mendel's work begin
the science of genetics
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Who theorizes that all matter is made of atoms
John Dalton
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Who created the periodic table of the elements
Dmitri Mendeleev
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What is the type of energy discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie
Radioactivity
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Who says that atoms have a nucleus surrounded by electrons
Ernest Rutherford
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Sciences of ____, ________, and ______ begin in 1800's
archaeology, sociology, and anthropology
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what is the study of human mind and behavior
Psychology
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Who believes human actions actually unconscious reactions
Ivan Pavlov
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Who studies unconscious, develop psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
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Who shake Enlightenment's faith in reason
Freud and Pavlov
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What is Art, music, and entertainment for large audiences
mass culture
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What was Vaudeville, juggling, dancing, travelling acts, music halls, and films available too
working class
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Who drew huge crowds
Spectator sports

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