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suffrage

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the right to vote

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only property owners

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could vote

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dissenter

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Non-Anglican Protestant

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only men who

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

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began demanding changes in voting

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workers and middle class

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resisted changes in voting because

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upper class
they feared political reform would take power away from them
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Reform Bill (1832)

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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

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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

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

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Tory Party

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

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laws were aimed at reforming

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the horrible working conditions of women and children

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slavery (1833)

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was abolished in all British colonies

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corn laws

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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laws were repealed in 1846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

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William Lovett

universal male suffrage and a secret ballot

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People’s Charter

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a document that listed the Chartist Movement’s proposals

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the chartist movement was popular among

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British workers but by the 1840s the movement had ended

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reigned from 1837-1900; 63 years

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Queen Victoria

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

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the Victorian Era

a free hand and did not interfere

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Benjamin Disreali

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leader of the Conservative Party

2 terms as Prime Minister

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William Gladstone

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leader of the Liberal Party

4 terms as Prime Minister

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Education Act (1870)

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created a national elementary education system

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Act of Union (1801)

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linked Ireland with Great Britian

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Most Irish

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hated British rule

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Most Irish were so resented

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Catholic

having to pay taxes to support the Anglican Church

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home rule

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would allow Irish people to rule themselves

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Potato Famine (1845)

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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

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the divisions of Canada

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upper Canada and lower Canada

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Act of Union (1841)

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unified British Upper Canada and French Lower Canada

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British North American Act (1867) creates the

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Dominion of Canada

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in the late 1890s the

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discovery of gold brought many people to northwestern Canada

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Captain James Cook (1770)

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

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

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penal
convicts
Sydney

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the US attitude toward European affairs

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wanted to avoid them

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US wanted to focus on

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building their lives within the new country

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NW ordinance (1787)

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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

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Louisiana Purchase (1803)

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

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Florida (1819)

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we purchased Florida from Spain

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Texas Territory (1836)

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

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Oregon Territory (1846)

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a treaty with Great Britain gave us this land

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Gadsden Purchase (1853)

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expanded the southern border

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1867 was purchased

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Alaska

from Russia

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1898 was annexed to the US

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Hawaii

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sectionalism

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competition among sections or regions of the country

44
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northeast
south
west

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industrial
agricultural
frontier

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slavery

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

46
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1860 was elected President

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Abraham Lincoln

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1861

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Civil War begins and it is the first “modern war”

48
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1863 was issued by Lincoln

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Emancipation Proclamation

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April 1865

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the Confederacy surrendered and the war ends

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Louis XVIII was restored as by the but the constitution

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

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Charles X

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

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Louis Philippe

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

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Louis Napoleon

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

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plebescite

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a yes/no vote

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Otto von Bismarck

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head of the Prussian gov’t

known as the “Iron Chancellor”

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Alsace and Lorraine

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resource rich territory in France; particularly iron ore

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Franco-Prussian War

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

58
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Third Republic

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constitution of 1875 makes France a republic

president is elected by legislature for a 7 year term

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Dreyfuss scandal

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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

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antisemites

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people who are prejudiced against Jews

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coalition

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

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colonized regions of Brazil

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Portugal

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

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Spain

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both Spain and Portugal based colonial empire on

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mercantilism (nation gains wealth by obtaining gold and silver)

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haciendas(Spanish America)

fazendas(Brazil)

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large self sufficient farms

huge commercial estates

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american natives were used as

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slave-like labor

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European diseases

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wiped out whole Indian settlements

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a decrease in the Native American population as the need for

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labor increased and began to use African slaves

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peninsulares

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Europeans who were born in Spain or Portugal

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creoles

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white people born in the colonies

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by the 1700s most of the population was of

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mixed ancestry

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mulatto

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European and African ancestry

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mestizo

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American Indian and European background

74
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the intendancy system was begun by

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Charles III of Spain

75
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intendent

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royal governors in the colonies

76
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Simon Bolivar

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Known as the liberator

77
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Touissan L’Overture led the only successful

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revolution led by slaves anywhere in the world

78
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was the first region to gain their independence

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Haiti

79
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in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo

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a priest led a revolution or rebellion

eventually was captured and executed by the Spanish

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Jose aria Morelos

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also a priest who assumed leadership of Hidalgo’s rebels

was also executed in 1815

81
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Monroe Doctrine(1823) was issued by

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

82
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caudillo

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a military dictator

83
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the caudillo led governments usually only lasted

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as long as the dictator lived

84
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liberalist movement aimed at protecting individual

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political and civil liberties

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