Chapter 26 Flashcards
- Queen Victoria
“queen for nearly 64 years. During the Blank Age, the British Empire reached the height of its wealth and power. She was popular with her subjects, and she performed her duties capably. However, she was forced to accept a less powerful role for the monarchy.”
- Suffrage
The right to vote
- Dreyfus Affair
A controversy in France in the 1890’s centering on trial and imprisonment of a Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus who because of widespread anti-semitism, had been falsely accused of selling weapons to Germany.
- Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jewish people
- Zionism
A movement founded in the 1890’s to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland.
- Aborigines
A member of any native peoples in Australia.
- Home Rule
A control of all internal matters granted to the residents of the region granted by the government.
- Irish Republican Army (IRA)
An unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britain
- Manifest Destiny
“ the idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean”
- Segregation
The legal or social separation of people of different races
- Assembly Line
“line of workers who each put a single piece on unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt.”
- Charles Darwin
“developed a theory that all forms of life, including human beings, evolved from earlier living forms that had existed millions of years ago.”
-developed the theory of evolution. Wrote “On the Origin of Species by Means of natural selection.
- Theory of Evolution
The idea from Charles Darwin that species of plants and animals arise by means of process of natural selection
- Psychology
The study of the human mind and human behavior.
