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To leave the nation

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Secede

2
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Leader of Britain when democratic changes were occuring

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Queen Victoria

3
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Place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences as an alternative to prison

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Penal Colony

4
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Study of the mind

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Psychology

5
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Nation in the British Empire allowed to govern its own domestic affairs

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dominion

6
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Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand

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Maori

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Native people of Austrailia

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Aborigines

8
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Local control over domestic affairs

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Home Rule

9
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Unofficial military force seeking independence

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Irish Republican Army

10
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Government formed in France after Napoleon III was exiled

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Third Republic

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Separation by race

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Segregation

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Arrangement by which a product in a factory is moved from worker to worker, with each worker completing a single step in the task

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Assembly Line

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War fought between the North and South from 1861–1865

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Civil War

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Belief that the United States would rule the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

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Manifest Destiny

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Form of energy released as atoms decay

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radioactive

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Movement in England to give the right to vote to more people and to obtain other rights

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Chartist Movement

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Art and entertainment appealing to a large audience

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mass culture

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movement to establish a separate homeland in Palestine for the Jews

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Zionism

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16th president of the United States

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Abraham Lincoln

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Scientist who developed the theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin

21
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Right to Vote

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Suffrage

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Theory that all life on earth developed from simpler forms of life

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theory of evolution

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Prejudice against Jews

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anti-semitism

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Events surrounding the framing of a Jewish officer in the French Army

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Dreyfus Affair

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1863 proclamation to free the slaves in the Confederate states

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Emancipation Proclamation