Chapter 10 Flashcards
right to vote
Suffrage
press for more rights
Chartist Movement
came to throne in 1837 at theage of 18. one of the longest reigns in history.
Queen Victoria
system of government that divides us least
Third Republic
battle field for opposing forces
Dreyfus Affair
prejudice against jews
Anti-Semitism
promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1890s
Zionism
a nation allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
Dominion
Polynesian people who had settled on New Zealand’s two main islands around A.D. 800
Maori
native people
Aborigine
place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences as an alternative to prison
Penal Code
Local control over internal matters only
Home Rule
the idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
U.S. President during civil war
Abraham Lincoln
Withdraw
Secede
four years of fighting followed, most of it in the south
U.S. Civil War
declared that all slaves in the Confederate states were free
Emancipation Proclamation
seperation
Segregation
a line of workers who each put a single piece on 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
an English biologist
Charles Darwin
Darwin’s idea of change through natural selection
Theory of Evolution
a powerful form of energy
Radioactivity
the study of the human mind and behavior
Psychology
