Chapter Ten Flashcards
(34 cards)
The right to vote
Suffrage
A popular movement to press for more rights
Chartist Movement
Figure who presided over all this historic change
Queen Victoria
System of government that divides and lasted over 60 years
Third Republic
A controversy in France centered about the imprisonment of a Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus
Dreyfus Affair
Prejudice against Jews
Anti-Semitism
The long history of excite and persecution convinced them that they should work for a separate homeland in Palestine
Zionism
In the British empire, a nation allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
Dominion
A Polynesian people who settled on New Zealand islands
Maoris
People who inhabited Australia also called native peoples
Aborigines
A place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences as an alternative prison
Penal colony
Local control over internal matters only
Home rule
The idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
Manifest destiny
1860 president who ended all slavery in United States, also was in civil war between north and south
Abraham Lincoln
Withdraw
Secede
War between north and south over slavery in United States
U.S. Civil War
Declared that all slaves were free in confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation of blacks and whites in the south
Segregation
A line of workers who each put a single piece on an unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt
Assembly line
The appeal of art, writing, music and other forms of entertainment to a much larger audience
Mass culture
English biologist who created the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
Idea of change through natural selection
Theory of evolution
a mineral called pitchblende released a powerful energy called…
Radioactivity
The study of human mind and behavior
Psychology