Ch20 - Terms Flashcards
What is the Great Exhibition?
the first world’s fair
What is suffrage?
the right to vote
What does the Reform Bill of 1832 allow?
It allowed middle-class males to vote.
What were two political parties in the Parliament during the mid-19th century?
Liberal and Conservative
What ministry was founded by William Booth and was located in the darkest slums of London?
Salvation Army
What was the YMCA when it was founded?
It was founded to minister to the spiritual needs of young men in the cities.
What is diplomacy?
Strategic negotiations between nations
What document made Canada a self-governing commonwealth (federation of states) in 1867?
British North America Act
What was considered a tool of British settlement in India?
East India Company
What was the name of the 1857 uprising among native soldiers in the British army over the religious traditions of India?
Sepoy Rebellion
What act wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Company and gave full political control of India to the British government in 1858?
India Act
What was the “Great Trek”?
a journey over 1,000 Boers who left the Cape Colony to establish two new republics to the northeast of the colony - Transvaal and the Orange Free State
What event in 1851 greatly escalated the rate of colonization in Australia?
The Australian Gold Rush
What is the British Commonwealth of Nations?
as association of nations acknowledging the British monarch as their symbolic head
What act officially joined England and Ireland in 1800?
Act of Union
Which act allowed Irish Catholics to vote and sit in Parliament?
Catholic Emancipation Act
Explain Darwinism.
The philosophy of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin in his book “On the Origin of Species”
What is socialism?
the system in which the government owns or controls a nation’s economy
What is modernism and what did it cause?
religious liberalism; caused church leasers to be more concerned with attacking social injustices and working toward total democracy than with bringing people to a personal salvation through Jesus Christ
What is materialism?
the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling, must be explained in terms of matter.
What are Christian Socialists?
a group who wanted benevolent social reform but did not want to take the Bible literally
What are Chartists?
an organization of laborers who demanded immediate voting rights for all men
What is the Fabian Society?
a group of British socialists who taught that socialism should be achieved gradually through a series of reforms
