Chapter Ten Flashcards
The right to vote
Suffrage
A popular movement to press for more rights
Chartist Movement
Figure who presided over all this historic change
Queen Victoria
System of government that divides and lasted over 60 years
Third Republic
A controversy in France centered about the imprisonment of a Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus
Dreyfus Affair
Prejudice against Jews
Anti-Semitism
The long history of excite and persecution convinced them that they should work for a separate homeland in Palestine
Zionism
In the British empire, a nation allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
Dominion
A Polynesian people who settled on New Zealand islands
Maoris
People who inhabited Australia also called native peoples
Aborigines
A place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences as an alternative prison
Penal colony
Local control over internal matters only
Home rule
The idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
Manifest destiny
1860 president who ended all slavery in United States, also was in civil war between north and south
Abraham Lincoln
Withdraw
Secede
War between north and south over slavery in United States
U.S. Civil War
Declared that all slaves were free in confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation of blacks and whites in the south
Segregation
A line of workers who each put a single piece on an 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
English biologist who created the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
Idea of change through natural selection
Theory of evolution
a mineral called pitchblende released a powerful energy called…
Radioactivity
The study of human mind and behavior
Psychology
What political reforms had the effect of expanding democracy for men in Britain?
The reform bill passed in 1832 which allowed about 1 in 5 men the right to vote instead of only men who owned land, People’s charter let all men vote
How did the Women’s Social and Political Union call attention to its cause?
Besides peaceful demonstrations and parades, its members heckled government speakers, cut telegraph wires, and committed arson
What cultural conflict caused problems for Canada?
Religious and cultural differences between Roman Catholic French and Protestant English speaking colonists
How did Australia’s early history differ from that of other British colonies?
It was a penal colony where prisoners were sent to serve their sentences
Why did the British government pass a home rule bill for Southern Ireland only?
Because they weren’t very many Protestants there to get left out. Catholics would overpower the Protestants in the north so they didn’t give it to the north
In what different ways did the United States gain territory in the 1800s?
Louisiana purchase from France, Florida from Spain
How did the North and South differ economically? Why was the issue of slavery so divisive?
North-factories, transportation, didn’t want slavery
South-farms, needed slavery for business purposes
North didn’t need slaves to support their factories but the south needed slaves to work their farms
What was Darwin’s principle of natural selection? Why did many people oppose his theory of evolution?
Populations tend to grow faster than the food supply and so must compete for food. It contradicted the account of creation in the Bible
What contributions did each of the following scientists make?
Mendel, Dalton, Mendeleev, Marie Curie, Rutherford
Mendel- discovered the pattern of the way certain traits are inherited
Dalton- discovered theory of atoms and compounds
Mendeleev- discovered the periodic table
Marie Curie- discovered radioactivity
Rutherford-discovered atoms were surrounded by electrons
How did Pavlov and Freud contribute to the study of psychology?
Pavlov concluded that an animals reflex’s could be changed or conditioned through training
Freud concludes forces such as memory, desires, and impulse help shape behavior, created therapy called psychoanalysis
