Unit 11 Vocab Flashcards
The right to vote
Suffrage
A movement to press for more rights
Charities movement
One of Britain’s most favored queens; queen during the starting of democracy; ruled for 64 years
Queen Victoria
A system of government that attempts to not divide the people
Third republic
A controversy that became a battleground for army men and common people
Dreyfus affair
Prejudice against Jews
Anti-Semitism
The movement where the Jews created a dream homeland for them to work
Zionism
Self governing, but remaining part of another country
Dominion
Polynesian people that settled in New Zealand in the 9th century
Maori
The native people of Australia
Aborigine
A place where convicts were sent to serve their sentence as an alternative to prison
Penal Colony
Local control over internal matters only
Home rule
A line of workers who each put a single piece on unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt
Assembly line
The appeal of rat, writing, music and other forms of entertainment to a much larger audience
Mass culture
English biologist who made a controversial idea of evolution
Charles Darwin
The idea that species of plants and animals arise by means of a process of natural selection
Theory of evolution
A powerful form of energy
Radioactivity
The study of human mind and behavior
Psychology
Th idea hat the United States had the right and duly to rule North America for ocean to ocean
Manifest destiny
16th president who proposed to end slavery
Abraham Lincoln
Withdraw
Secede
War between the north and the south over government and slavery
U.S civil war
The declaration that all slaves in the U.S. territory were free
Emancipation Proclamation
Separation
Segregation
