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Chapter 23 Flashcards

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Dominated politics and heavily

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Wealthy nobles and squires, or country landowners

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with a parliament and two political parties. Even with this governmental system it was still far from a democracy of what we know today

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Constitutional Monarchy

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Made up a hereditary nobles

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House of Lords

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high ranking clergy could vote any bill passed by the

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House of Commons

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Kept many people from voting

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Long-standing laws

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Could not vote or serve in Parliament

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Catholics and non Anglican Protestants

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in 1820 reformers pushed to end

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Religious restrictions

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and still had them send members to Parliament.

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Rotten Boroughs

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Had no seats in the Parliament because they had not exists as population centers earlier in time

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Manchester and Birmingham

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Represented the middle class and business interests

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The Whig Party

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Spoke for nobles, landowners, and others whose interest and income came from agriculture

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The Tory Party

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Distributed seats in the House of Commons, giving representation to large towns and cities and eliminating rotten boroughs

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The Great Reform Act in 1832

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Is the body of people allowed to vote by granting suffrage to more men

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Electorate

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which would allow people to cast their votes without announcing them publicly.

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Secret Ballot

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Drew up the people’s charter

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Carhartist

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From 1837 to 1981 the great symbol in British life. Her reign was the longest in British History even though she had little real political power, she set the tone for the age. She embodied the values of her age of duty, thrift, honesty, and hard work, and above all she respectably with a strict code of morals and manners

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Queen Victoria

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forged the Tories into the modern Conservative Party.

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Benjamin Disraeli

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The Whigs were being led by ________-which evolved into the liberal party

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William Gladstone

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Disraeli and The Conservative Party pushed this reform. Gave the vote to many working class men (this new law almost doubled the size of the electorate)

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Reform Bill of 1867

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Allowed most men the right to vote and the right to a secret ballot

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Extended Suffrage

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A form of government in which the executive leaders (usually the prime minister and the cabinet) are chosen by and responsible to the legislature (parliament)

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Parliamentary Democracy

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Britian transformed from a constitutional monarchy to a

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Parliamentary Democracy

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Parliamentary Democracy=

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Executive and Legislative Branches of Government

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Trade between other countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restriction

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Free trade

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usually the middle- class business leaders agree with Adam Smith that the policies pf laissez faire would increase prosperity for all.

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Free Trades

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Imposed high tariffs on imported gain. Framers and wealthy landowners supported this because they kept the price of British grain high

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Corn Laws

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or cancel the Corn Laws.

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Repeal

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__________wanted to cancel the Corn Laws

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Free Trades

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meaning the campaign against slavery and slave trade, slowly took off.

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Abolition Movement

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In 1807 they became the first European to abolish slavery

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Britain

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Included not only murder but also shoplifting, sheep stealing and impersonating an army veteran

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Capital Offenses

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Was served for murder, piracy, treason, and arson

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Death Penalty

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Settlements for convicts, in the new British territory in Australia

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Penal Colonies

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In 1886 Parliament ended

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Public hanging

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Never accepted British rule

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Irish

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who owned large estates but did not live on them

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Absentee Landlords

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Many Irish peasants lived in poverty, while paying high rent in

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England

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Left the Irish with a legacy of bitterness and distrust towards Britain

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The Famine in Ireland

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or local self government

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Home rule

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He railed Irish members of the Parliament to press for home rule

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Charles Stewart Parnell

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In Egypt it was the link between the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean

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Suez Canal

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Promoted investment in industry and large scale ventures such as railroad beginning and the urban renewal of Paris. Also legalized labor unions, attended public education for girls, and created a small public health program

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Napoleon II

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Temporary government

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Provisional

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It’s goal was to save the republic from royalist

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French Revolution

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Were called include workers and socialist as well as bourgeois republicans

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Communards

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Remained in place for 70 years

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Third Republic

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The powerful lower house, was elected by universal male suffrage

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Chamber of Desputies

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Prime minister

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Premier

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Had the real power

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Premier

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Or alliance of various parties

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Coalition

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Was accused of spying for Germany

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Alfred Dreyfus

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Publication of false and damaging stamens knowingly he fled into exile (after being convicted)

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Libel

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Reflected the rise of antisemitism in Europe

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Dreyfus Case

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A Hungarian Jewish journalist living in Franc to call for the Jewish people to from their own separate state where they could have rights that were being otherwise denied to them

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Theodore Herzl

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Is a movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in ancient homelands

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Zionist movement

55
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Extending the nation’s boundaries

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Expansionism

56
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And almost double the size of American territory

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Louisiana Purchase

57
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This president bought the Louisiana territory

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Thomas Jefferson

58
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The U.S. Expanded to include

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Florida, Oregon, and the Republic of Texas

59
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The Mexican war added

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California and Southwest

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Americans proclaimed that their nation was destined to spread across the entire continent to sea to sea

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Manifest Destiny

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U.S. Reforms wanted to

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Banned alcohol, have better treatment of mentality ill, free elementary school, and the abolition movement

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Pressed the anti-slavery cause through his newspaper the liberator

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Was born into slavery and escaped spoke about the evils of the slavery system

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Fredrick Douglass

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Found out that they had had the same equal as the slaves. They were allowed to speak because they are this

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Women

65
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The civil war lasted from

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1861-1865

66
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Or withdrew from the union and formed the confederate states of America

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Seceded

67
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Had fewer resources, fewer people, and less industry than the North. Fought fiercely to defend their cause

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South

68
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Enslaved African Americans in the south were declared free

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Emancipation Proclaimation

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legal separation of the races, in hospitals, schools and other places

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Segregation

70
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Prevented African Americans from voting

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15 Amendment

71
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Built the nation’s largest steel company

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Andrew Carnegie

72
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Which dominated the world’s petroleum industry

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John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Company

73
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Used their political power to create eight-hour work days (even though they never became a majority party in government

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Populist Party

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