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Benjamin Disraeli
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wrote novel Sybil - Forged Tories into conservative party and pushed Reofrm Act of 1867. Alternated w/Gladstone as Prime Minister.
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Torie/Liberal
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Chartism
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protesters who drew up People's Charter - demanded male suffrage, annual parliamentary elections, and salaries for all members of parliament. Key demand was secret ballot
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protesters
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Queen Victoria
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longest reign in British history - strict code of morals and manners - values = duty, thrift, honesty, respectability abd hard work. Middle class thrived under her reign
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rerspectablity
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William Gladstone
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led the Whigs/liberal party - pushed for Reform Act of 1867
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Whig/liberal
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Liberal Party
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Gladstone - House of Commons pressed ahead w/social reforms, but met dfeeat in House of Lords. Vetoed any attmep to raise taxes on the wealthy peopel - 1911 liberal governent passed law restricting rights of House of Lords - became symbol w/no power
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House of Commons vs. House of Lords
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Conservative Party
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Disraeli - pushed thorugh reform Bill of 1867
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Disraeli
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Georges Boiulanger
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rallied royalist and ultranationalists eager for revenge on Germany - commited suicide when accused of plotting to overthrow the republic
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commited suicide
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reform Act of 1842
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working conditions started to be regulated in factories --> women and children could only work 10 hr days
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working cond.
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Paris Commune
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1871 = uprising - Goal: save republic from royalists. rebels wre called communards
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communards
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reform Act of 1832, Social Welfare Laws, reform act of 1867
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expanded electorate, gave health and unemployment insurance to working class citizens, gave working class men the right to vote and established secret ballot
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electorate, insurance, working class
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Corn Laws and Slavery
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high tarrifs on imported grain and abolished salvery in all Birtish colonies
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imported grain, britsh colonies
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Fabian Society
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promoted change and reofrm thorugh legal rather than violent ways
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non violent
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Emmeline Pankhurst, Womens Suffrage
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leadiung suffragist who thought aggrexive way was only way - She would interrupt speakers in Parliament w/things such as "VOtes for Women!" Held petitions and huge public demonstrations - arrested and jailed, given right to vote in later 20th century
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womens rights
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Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829
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granted Irsih the right to vote and hold government office.
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Irish rights
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Provisional, Coalition, libel, and premier
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temporary (3rd Republic), alliances w/various parties, the knowing publication of false and damaging statements, and prime minister
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vocab words
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