An Age of Democracy and Progress - Chapter 26 Flashcards
Trace the spread of democratic ideals and industrial and scientific progress in the 19th century.
To leave the nation
Secede
Leader of Britain when democratic changes were occuring
Queen Victoria
Place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences as an alternative to prison
Penal Colony
Study of the mind
Psychology
Nation in the British Empire allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
dominion
Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand
Maori
Native people of Austrailia
Aborigines
Local control over domestic affairs
Home Rule
Unofficial military force seeking independence
Irish Republican Army
Government formed in France after Napoleon III was exiled
Third Republic
Separation by race
Segregation
Arrangement by which a product in a factory is moved from worker to worker, with each worker completing a single step in the task
Assembly Line
War fought between the North and South from 1861–1865
Civil War
Belief that the United States would rule the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Form of energy released as atoms decay
radioactive
Movement in England to give the right to vote to more people and to obtain other rights
Chartist Movement
Art and entertainment appealing to a large audience
mass culture
movement to establish a separate homeland in Palestine for the Jews
Zionism
16th president of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
Scientist who developed the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
Right to Vote
Suffrage
Theory that all life on earth developed from simpler forms of life
theory of evolution
Prejudice against Jews
anti-semitism
Events surrounding the framing of a Jewish officer in the French Army
Dreyfus Affair
1863 proclamation to free the slaves in the Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
