Chapter 15 Notes Flashcards by Elizabeth Glass

suffrage

the right to vote

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liberalist movement aimed at protecting individual

political and civil liberties

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only property owners

could vote

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dissenter

Non-Anglican Protestant

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only men who

owned a great deal of property could be elected to the House of Commons

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began demanding changes in voting

workers and middle class

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resisted changes in voting because

upper class
they feared political reform would take power away from them

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Reform Bill (1832)

took seats away in the House of Commons from less populated areas and gave them to the industrial cities

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after the reform bill

people with less property could now vote so middle class now had a voice in Britain’s gov’t and power in Parliament

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Whig Party

formed with radicals and Tory Liberals and became known as the Liberal Party

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Tory Party

made up of wealthy land owners and became known as the Conservative Party

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laws were aimed at reforming

the horrible working conditions of women and children

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slavery (1833)

was abolished in all British colonies

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corn laws

placed high taxes on grain imported by British which enabled British landowners to sell at high prices
laws were repealed in 1846

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Chartist movement was begun by and called for

William Lovett

universal male suffrage and a secret ballot

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People’s Charter

a document that listed the Chartist Movement’s proposals

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the chartist movement was popular among

British workers but by the 1840s the movement had ended

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reigned from 1837-1900; 63 years

Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria’s rule was known as and she gave her prime ministers

the Victorian Era

a free hand and did not interfere

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Benjamin Disreali

leader of the Conservative Party

2 terms as Prime Minister

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William Gladstone

leader of the Liberal Party

4 terms as Prime Minister

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Education Act (1870)

created a national elementary education system

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Act of Union (1801)

linked Ireland with Great Britian

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Most Irish

hated British rule

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Most Irish were so resented

Catholic | having to pay taxes to support the Anglican Church

home rule

would allow Irish people to rule themselves

Potato Famine (1845)

a blight destroyed almost all of the potato crop; fueled the fire many Irish had towards the British because the British did not help them when they needed it; this famine caused lots of people to starve

the divisions of Canada

upper Canada and lower Canada

Act of Union (1841)

unified British Upper Canada and French Lower Canada

British North American Act (1867) creates the

Dominion of Canada

in the late 1890s the

discovery of gold brought many people to northwestern Canada

Captain James Cook (1770)

landed on the eastern shore of Australia and claimed it for Great Britain

Britain used Australia as a colony and the first arrived in 1788 and founded the town of

penal convicts Sydney

the US attitude toward European affairs

wanted to avoid them

US wanted to focus on

building their lives within the new country

NW ordinance (1787)

provided gov't in the NW territory and said once 5000 males lived in the territory it could start its own legislature and once 60,000 people lived there it could adopt a constitution and apply for statehood

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Napoleon sold us this land that doubled the size of the US

Florida (1819)

we purchased Florida from Spain

Texas Territory (1836)

we got to war with Mexico and we win the war and get Texas

Oregon Territory (1846)

a treaty with Great Britain gave us this land

Gadsden Purchase (1853)

expanded the southern border

1867 was purchased

Alaska | from Russia

1898 was annexed to the US

Hawaii

sectionalism

competition among sections or regions of the country

northeast south west

industrial agricultural frontier

slavery

was legal but each new state could decide on the slave question and decide if they would abolish it or keep it

1860 was elected President

Abraham Lincoln

1861

Civil War begins and it is the first "modern war"

1863 was issued by Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation

April 1865

the Confederacy surrendered and the war ends

Louis XVIII was restored as by the but the constitution

the French monarch Congress of Vienna limited the king's power

Charles X

brother to Louis XVIII believer in absolute monarchy 1830 Charles gave up the throne

Louis Philippe

ruling family-Bourbon appointed as king of France after Charles X left known as the "citizen king"

Louis Napoleon

nephew to Napoleon Bonaparte constitution limited him to one term eventually he gets the support of the people

plebescite

a yes/no vote

Otto von Bismarck

head of the Prussian gov't | known as the "Iron Chancellor"

Alsace and Lorraine

resource rich territory in France; particularly iron ore

Franco-Prussian War

fought between France and Prussia Bismarck manipulates France into war eventually Paris falls to a Prussian invasion

Third Republic

constitution of 1875 makes France a republic | president is elected by legislature for a 7 year term

Dreyfuss scandal

Jewish French army captain; accused of giving French military secrets to Germans and sentenced to life in prison; evidence later surfaced that said he was innocent

antisemites

people who are prejudiced against Jews

coalition

parties temporarily unite to get things done; to form a majority in the legislature

colonized regions of Brazil

Portugal

controlled most of s. america, central america, and southwest North America

Spain

both Spain and Portugal based colonial empire on

mercantilism (nation gains wealth by obtaining gold and silver)

haciendas(Spanish America) | fazendas(Brazil)

large self sufficient farms | huge commercial estates

american natives were used as

slave-like labor

European diseases

wiped out whole Indian settlements

a decrease in the Native American population as the need for

labor increased and began to use African slaves

peninsulares

Europeans who were born in Spain or Portugal

creoles

white people born in the colonies

by the 1700s most of the population was of

mixed ancestry

mulatto

European and African ancestry

mestizo

American Indian and European background

the intendancy system was begun by

Charles III of Spain

intendent

royal governors in the colonies

Simon Bolivar

Known as the liberator

Touissan L'Overture led the only successful

revolution led by slaves anywhere in the world

was the first region to gain their independence

Haiti

in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo

a priest led a revolution or rebellion | eventually was captured and executed by the Spanish

Jose aria Morelos

also a priest who assumed leadership of Hidalgo's rebels | was also executed in 1815

Monroe Doctrine(1823) was issued by

President James Monroe and it stated that the US would not interfere in colonial affairs in the Western hemisphere

caudillo

a military dictator

the caudillo led governments usually only lasted

as long as the dictator lived