Chapter 23 Flashcards
Dominated politics and heavily
Wealthy nobles and squires, or country landowners
with a parliament and two political parties. Even with this governmental system it was still far from a democracy of what we know today
Constitutional Monarchy
Made up a hereditary nobles
House of Lords
high ranking clergy could vote any bill passed by the
House of Commons
Kept many people from voting
Long-standing laws
Could not vote or serve in Parliament
Catholics and non Anglican Protestants
in 1820 reformers pushed to end
Religious restrictions
and still had them send members to Parliament.
Rotten Boroughs
Had no seats in the Parliament because they had not exists as population centers earlier in time
Manchester and Birmingham
Represented the middle class and business interests
The Whig Party
Spoke for nobles, landowners, and others whose interest and income came from agriculture
The Tory Party
Distributed seats in the House of Commons, giving representation to large towns and cities and eliminating rotten boroughs
The Great Reform Act in 1832
Is the body of people allowed to vote by granting suffrage to more men
Electorate
which would allow people to cast their votes without announcing them publicly.
Secret Ballot
Drew up the people’s charter
Carhartist
From 1837 to 1981 the great symbol in British life. Her reign was the longest in British History even though she had little real political power, she set the tone for the age. She embodied the values of her age of duty, thrift, honesty, and hard work, and above all she respectably with a strict code of morals and manners
Queen Victoria
forged the Tories into the modern Conservative Party.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Whigs were being led by ________-which evolved into the liberal party
William Gladstone
Disraeli and The Conservative Party pushed this reform. Gave the vote to many working class men (this new law almost doubled the size of the electorate)
Reform Bill of 1867
Allowed most men the right to vote and the right to a secret ballot
Extended Suffrage
A form of government in which the executive leaders (usually the prime minister and the cabinet) are chosen by and responsible to the legislature (parliament)
Parliamentary Democracy
Britian transformed from a constitutional monarchy to a
Parliamentary Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy=
Executive and Legislative Branches of Government
Trade between other countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restriction
Free trade
usually the middle- class business leaders agree with Adam Smith that the policies pf laissez faire would increase prosperity for all.
Free Trades
Imposed high tariffs on imported gain. Framers and wealthy landowners supported this because they kept the price of British grain high
Corn Laws
or cancel the Corn Laws.
Repeal
__________wanted to cancel the Corn Laws
Free Trades
meaning the campaign against slavery and slave trade, slowly took off.
Abolition Movement
In 1807 they became the first European to abolish slavery
Britain
Included not only murder but also shoplifting, sheep stealing and impersonating an army veteran
Capital Offenses
Was served for murder, piracy, treason, and arson
Death Penalty
Settlements for convicts, in the new British territory in Australia
Penal Colonies
In 1886 Parliament ended
Public hanging
Never accepted British rule
Irish
who owned large estates but did not live on them
Absentee Landlords
Many Irish peasants lived in poverty, while paying high rent in
England
Left the Irish with a legacy of bitterness and distrust towards Britain
The Famine in Ireland
or local self government
Home rule
He railed Irish members of the Parliament to press for home rule
Charles Stewart Parnell
In Egypt it was the link between the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean
Suez Canal
Promoted investment in industry and large scale ventures such as railroad beginning and the urban renewal of Paris. Also legalized labor unions, attended public education for girls, and created a small public health program
Napoleon II
Temporary government
Provisional
It’s goal was to save the republic from royalist
French Revolution
Were called include workers and socialist as well as bourgeois republicans
Communards
Remained in place for 70 years
Third Republic
The powerful lower house, was elected by universal male suffrage
Chamber of Desputies
Prime minister
Premier
Had the real power
Premier
Or alliance of various parties
Coalition
Was accused of spying for Germany
Alfred Dreyfus
Publication of false and damaging stamens knowingly he fled into exile (after being convicted)
Libel
Reflected the rise of antisemitism in Europe
Dreyfus Case
A Hungarian Jewish journalist living in Franc to call for the Jewish people to from their own separate state where they could have rights that were being otherwise denied to them
Theodore Herzl
Is a movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in ancient homelands
Zionist movement
Extending the nation’s boundaries
Expansionism
And almost double the size of American territory
Louisiana Purchase
This president bought the Louisiana territory
Thomas Jefferson
The U.S. Expanded to include
Florida, Oregon, and the Republic of Texas
The Mexican war added
California and Southwest
Americans proclaimed that their nation was destined to spread across the entire continent to sea to sea
Manifest Destiny
U.S. Reforms wanted to
Banned alcohol, have better treatment of mentality ill, free elementary school, and the abolition movement
Pressed the anti-slavery cause through his newspaper the liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Was born into slavery and escaped spoke about the evils of the slavery system
Fredrick Douglass
Found out that they had had the same equal as the slaves. They were allowed to speak because they are this
Women
The civil war lasted from
1861-1865
Or withdrew from the union and formed the confederate states of America
Seceded
Had fewer resources, fewer people, and less industry than the North. Fought fiercely to defend their cause
South
Enslaved African Americans in the south were declared free
Emancipation Proclaimation
legal separation of the races, in hospitals, schools and other places
Segregation
Prevented African Americans from voting
15 Amendment
Built the nation’s largest steel company
Andrew Carnegie
Which dominated the world’s petroleum industry
John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Company
Used their political power to create eight-hour work days (even though they never became a majority party in government
Populist Party
