global vocab quiz Flashcards
What was Emmeline Pankhurst a leading advocate of?
Women’s suffrage in the UK
The Reform Bill of 1832 did what
This bill abolished tiny districts, gave representation to cities, gave the vote to small landowners, tenant farmers, shopkeepers, householders
Chartist Movement
This movement was to gain political rights and influence for the working classes.
What British colony famously began as a penal colony?
Australia
What British colony made up of English and French-speaking people became a self-governing “Dominion” in 1867?
Canada
What is the term used to describe the native people of Australia?
Aborigines
What is the native people who lived in New Zealand before Europeans arrived?
Maori
In what country did the Dreyfus Affair take place?
France
What do we call prejudice and hatred of Jews simply because they are Jews?
anti-semitism
What is the term for the Jewish nationalist movement that formed in the 19th century?
Zionism
What crime was Albert Dreyfus “J’accused” of?
selling military secrets to Germany
Reform Bill of 1832
expanded voting rights for middle class men in Britain
Parliament
Britains law-making body
Chartist Movement
a push for political reforms like universal male suffrage, gain political rights and influence for the working classes
Queen Victoria
British monarch during the 19th century reforms and empire expansion
Emmeline Pankhurst
leader of the british women’s suffrage movement
Dreyfus Affair
A scandal exposing anti semitism in France
Anti Semitism
Discrimination against Jewish people
Zionism
Movement for a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Settler Colonies
Colonies with European settlers, often displacing natives
British colony of English and French-speaking people that became a self-governing “Dominion” in 1867
Canada
Local control over political affairs
Self Government
Began as a British penal colony, later gained self rule
Australia
British colony with self rule and treaties with Maori
New Zealand
