An Age of Democracy and Progress Flashcards
What strongly affected Europe and its colonies
Democratic Ideals
Who expanded their borders
United States
What changed daily life
technology and science
Who underwent democratic reforms
Great Britain and France
Who did vote limit too in the early 1800’s
only to men with substantial property
Who could not vote at all
Women
Who ran the government
upper classes
What is the right to vote
suffrage
What movement expanded suffrage and reform politics
Chartist movement
What did the Chartist movement demand for
suffrage for all men, secret vote and Parliamentary reforms
What rejected at first but eventually adopted Chartist goals
Parliament
Who ruled for 64 years at height of British power
Queen Victoria
Who did Queen Victoria lose power too
Parliament
Who ran the government almost completely
prime minister
What did many women organize
the right to vote
Did all women want the right to vote
no
Who formed Women’s social and Political Union
Emmeline Pankhurst
After 1903, what did WSPU members do
protest, go to jail, and stage hunger strikes
When did women win suffrage in Britain and U.S.
after World War
Who changed their government repeatedly after Franco-Prussian War
France
What was the french government formed in 1875, and lasted 60 years
Third Republic
Who was a spy controversy over Jewish officer in French Army
Dreyfus Affair
What is the prejudice against jews/ it is strong in much of Europe
Anti-Semitism
Did the government ever declare Dreyfus innocent
Yes
What is the name of the movement for Jewish homeland/ grows after Dreyfus Affair
Zionism
Who allowed self-rule in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand but delays it for Ireland
Britain
Who was Canada originally home to
Native American people
What two countries did Canada split into
English (upper) and French (lower)
Who demanded more reform, producing rebellions in 1830’s
Middle class
Who approved Lord Durham’s changes allowing more self-rule
Parliament
Who wanted a central government to protect interests against U.S.
Canadians
What is self-governing but part of British Empire
Dominion
Who was the first prime minister of Canada
John MacDonald
Where did John expand Canada too
Pacific
What did John build
transcontinental railroad
who claimed New Zealand and part of Australia
Captain Cook
Who are native people of New Zealand
Maori
Who are native people of Australia
Aborigines
Who was an actor, director, and of Maori Descent
Taika Watiti
Who started colonizing Australia and made it a penal colony
Britian
What is a place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences
Penal colony
Could prisoners buy land and settle when they were released
Yes
What animal did settlers introduce
sheep
What became a major export
wool
Who recognized Maori land rights until conflicts in 1839
Britian
Who got limited self-rule
Australia and New Zealand
Who were the first to use the secret ballot
Australians
What was the first nation to grant women suffrage
New Zealand
Who killed many Maori and Aborigines
Colonists
What else killed people
European diseases
What lead into domination of Ireland
English expansion
Who resent English laws favoring Protestants
Irish Catholic majority
Who depended heavily on potatoes for nourishment
Irish peasants
What destroyed entire crop
potato famine
How many people died in the potato famine
1 million
Where did millions from Ireland flee to
U.S, Canada, Australia, Britian
Who staged failed Easter uprising in 1916
Frustrated Irish nationalists
What was an unofficial military force seeking independence
Irish Republican Army
When Ireland Split, did Northern Ireland remain part of Britain
Yes
What did the south part of Ireland become
Irish Free State, and then Republic of Ireland
What is local control over internal affairs
Home rule
Why was home rule being granted postponed
World War I
who patents over 1,000 inventions in research laboratory; creator of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Who invented the telephone and radio
Bell and Marconi
Who developed the first working airplane
The Wright Bros.
Who invented the first automobile
Germans
How did Henry Ford lower costs
Assembly line
What is one task per worker
Assembly line
Who discovered the existence of bacteria while observing fermentation
Louis Pasteur
What did Louis figure about bacteria
it could cause disease
Who links bacteria to surgical problems
Joseph Lister
What reduced deaths from infection
Sterilizing instruments
What did Medical researcher develop
vaccines
What did cities improve
sanitation
What did Darwin’s idea of natural selection say
competition elevates fittest, fittest then breed, their offspring share their advantages
What is species change slowly through natural selection
Theory of evolution
Who discovered patterns to inherited traits
Gregor Mendel
What did Mendel’s work begin
the science of genetics
Who theorizes that all matter is made of atoms
John Dalton
Who created the periodic table of the elements
Dmitri Mendeleev
What is the type of energy discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie
Radioactivity
Who says that atoms have a nucleus surrounded by electrons
Ernest Rutherford
Sciences of ____, ________, and ______ begin in 1800’s
archaeology, sociology, and anthropology
what is the study of human mind and behavior
Psychology
Who believes human actions actually unconscious reactions
Ivan Pavlov
Who studies unconscious, develop psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Who shake Enlightenment’s faith in reason
Freud and Pavlov
What is Art, music, and entertainment for large audiences
mass culture
What was Vaudeville, juggling, dancing, travelling acts, music halls, and films available too
working class
Who drew huge crowds
Spectator sports
