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25 Cards in this Set
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apportion
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divide and share electoral districts more fairly
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disenfranchised
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deprived of the right to vote
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suffragettes
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lead voting rights campaign
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home rule
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self-government
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dominion
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self governing territory
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ultraroyalists
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nobles favoring a return to the old order
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coup d'etat
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quick seizure of power
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plebiscite
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national vote
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sectionalism
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the devotion to the political and economic interest of a region
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secede
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with draw
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ratify
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approve
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peninsulares
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colonial leaders born in Spain
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creoles
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white aristocrats
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mestizos
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Latin American of mixed native American and European ancestry
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Electoral Reforms
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The Reform Act of 1832
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Reform Act of 1832
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lowered property qualifications for voting and gave more middle class males the right to vote
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Reform movements
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disenfranchised, charists
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Political parties
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the tories and the whigs and the cooperative party and the old tory party
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Political leadership
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Queen Victoria, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli
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William Gladstone
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served 4 times as prime minister between 1869- 1894.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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2 terms as prime minister briefly in 1868, 1874-1880
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Growth of Deomocracy
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the working class, women and Irish Catholics began to influence political life
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Rise of labor
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Labor unions
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Constitutional crisis
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called for higher taxes in budget of 1909
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Women demand greater rights
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leader Emmeline Pankhurst
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