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A political scandal that caused deep divisions in France; centered on the 1814 wrongful conviction for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army

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Dreyfus Affairs

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Rural towns in England that sent members to Parliament despite having few/none voters

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Rotten Boroughs

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Voters cast without announcing them public

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Secret ballot

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A form of government in which the executive leaders (usually a prime minister & cabinet), are chosen by & responsible to the legislature (parliament), are also members of it

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Parliamentary democracy

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Body of people allowed to vote

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Electorate

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Trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions

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Free trade

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Cancel

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Repeal

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Crime punishable by death

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Capital offense

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One who owns a large estate but doesn’t live there

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Absentee landlord

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Place where people convicted of crimes are sent

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Penal colony

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A movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in ancient homeland

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Zionism

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Knowing publication of false & damaging statements

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Libel

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Forced separation by race, *** religion, or ethnicity

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Segregation

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Withdraw

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Secede

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Temporary alliance of various political parties

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Coalition

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Policy of increasing the amount of territory a government holds

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Expansionism

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Local self-government

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Home rule

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Territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France in 1803

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Louisiana Purchase

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American idea that U.S. should stretch across the entire North American continent

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Manifest Destiny

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What was struck from the House of Lords?

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Power to veto

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What is free trade?

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Trade between countries without restrictions

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What did Parisian rebels set up?

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Commune

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What did the Parliament repeat to lower the price of grains & bread?

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Corn Laws

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Who regulated conditions in factories & mines & set a minimum wage?

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Reformers

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Who pushed Britain to end the slave trade?
William Wilberforce
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Who sent troops to disband the Communards?
National Assembly
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What does penal mean?
Punishment
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Where were petty criminals transported?
Penal colonies in the new British territory of Australia
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Why did many parties form unstable coalitions?
To name a premier
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What did the Third Republic's new laws regulate?
Wages, hours, & safety conditions
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What allowed the Labour Party suppress the Liberals?
Union membership soared
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What was a Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, accused of?
Spying for Germany
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What did Theodor Herzl launch?
Zionism
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Who published "J'Accuse!" & was convicted of libel?
Emile Zola
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Who used aggressive tactics to gain suffrage?
Emmeline Pankhurst
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While Irish peasants lived in desperate poverty who did they pay high rents?
Absentee landlords in England
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What was the blight that struck Ireland and destroyed the potato crop?
"The Great Hunger"
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What is Zionism?
A movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state
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Who bought the Louisiana territory from France?
President Jefferson
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What is Manifest Destiny?
An American belief that U.S. was destined to stretch across the continent
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In order to liberate Ireland what did Irish militants organize?
Fenian Brotherhood
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What did Napoleon III rule as?
A dictator
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Who rallied Irish members of Parliament to press for home rule?
Charles Steward Parnell
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Who escaped slavery & spoke in the North about the evils of the system?
Frederick Douglass
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Who did the Parliament grant the right to vote?
Catholics
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Who sent a few members to the Parliament, while new industrial cities had no seats?
Rotten Boroughs
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What represented the middle-class & business interests?
The Whig Party
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What was the Second Empire?
A constitutional monarchy
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What did Prussian troops do to Parisians?
Siege and starve
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Who spoke for nobles & landowners?
The Tory Party
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What did Ferdinand de Lesseps organize?
Construction of the Suez Canal
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Who was captured during the Franco-Prussian War?
Napoleon III
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Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention to gain equality?
Mott & Stanton
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Who did Napoleon III try to place on the Mexican throne?
Maximillian
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What imposed segregation in public places & conditions for voter eligibility?
Southern Laws
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What did being scared of Lincoln abolishing slavery do to the Southern states?
Southern states seceded
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What did the U.S. grow to lead in the world?
Industrial & agricultural production
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What were Southerners scared of?
Lincoln would abolish slavery
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What was France forced to surrender to Germany?
Alsace-Lorraine
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What did American workers organize?
American Federation of Labor
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Who sought to regulate conditions for workers & give more power to them?
The Progressives
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Who united to form the Populist Party?
Farmers & workers
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What act redistributed seats in the House of Commons & enlarged the electorate?
The Reform Act of 1832
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What did the People's Charter demand?
Universal manhood suffrage & a secret ballot
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What did the South have less of than the North?
Resources & industry
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Who is now the modern Liberal Party?
Gladstone's Whigs
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Under whose rule did the British Empire expand?
Victoria
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What bill did Disraeli's Tories reform?
Giving the vote to urban workers
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What bill did Gladstone's Whigs reform?
Giving the vote to farm workers
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What was Britain by 1900?
Parliament Democracy
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What did the Victorian Ideals include?
Duty, hard work, & respectability
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What is now the modern Conservative Party?
Disraeli's Tories
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