History Test Flashcards
Suffrage
The right to vote
Reform bill of 1832
In Britain, this law eased the property requirements so that well to do men in the middle class could vote, and also modernize the districts for electing members of Parliament.
Constitutional monarchy
A system of government in which the monarch serves as the head of the state, but Parliament holds the real power
Chartist movement
In 19th century Britain, members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men
Third republic
The republic that was established in France after the downfall of Napoleon 3 and end with the German occupation of France during WW2
Dreyfus affair
A controversy in France in the 1890s centering on the trial and imprisonment of a Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus who had been falsely accused of selling military secrets
anti- Semitism
Prejudice against Jews
Zionism
A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Dominion
In the British empire, a nation allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
Aborigine
A member of any of the native peoples of Australia
Penal colony
A colony in which convicts are sent as an alternative to prison
Home rule
a control over internal matters granted to the residents of a region by ruling a government
Manifest destiny
The right that the US could rule from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Louisiana Purchase
Purchase of all the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains by the United States from France in 1803 for $15 million dollars
Adams-Onis Treaty
in 1819, the US gained all the Spanish land east of the Mississippi River, Spain gave up any claims to the Oregon country, and the US gave up its claim to Texas
