Module 16

Question 1

Suffrage

Answer 1

the right to vote.

Question 2

Chartist movement

Answer 2

In 19th-century Britain, members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men.

Question 3

Victoria, Queen (1819–1901)

Answer 3

Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 and empress of India from 1876 to 1901; during her reign, the second-longest in all of British history, she allowed Parliament to become more involved in running the government.

Question 4

Third Republic

Answer 4

the republic that was established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III and ended with the German occupation of France during World War II.

Question 5

Dreyfus affair

Answer 5

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 to Germany.

Question 6

Anti-Semitism

Answer 6

prejudice against Jews.

Question 7

Zionism

Answer 7

a movement founded in the 1890s to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland.

Question 8

Dominion

Answer 8

in the British Empire, a nation (such as Canada) allowed to govern its own domestic affairs.

Question 9

Maori

Answer 9

a member of a Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand around AD 800.