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
A colony for prisoners
Penal Colony
Irish Home Rule
Movement for Irish self government
Great Famine
Irish famine caused by potato crop failure
What does IRA stand for and what is it
Irish Republican Army
Militant group for Irish independence
The idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
Name one of three conservative groups in France who had generally opposed democracy and were discredited by the Dreyfus Affair?
Monarchists, Military and the Church
What country lost a war with the United States in 1848 and gave up lots of land as a result?
Mexico
What legal change was made in the 13th amendment for the United States Constitution?
The end of slavery
What did the United States purchase from France in 1803 almost doubling the area of the country?
Louisiana Purchase
The American Civil War began with the attack on this place in 1861.
Fort Sumter, Charleston South Carolina
The US civil war was fought by…. over….
The North and South
over slavery and states rights
Secede
Southern states leaving the union
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln’s 1863 declaration freeing confederate slaves
Reconstruction
Post civil war rebuilding and integration of the south
immigration
movement of people to a new country
