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25 Cards in this Set
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the right to vote
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suffrage
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developed the People's Charter of 1838 calling for suffrage for all white males & annual parliamentary elections
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Chartist Movement
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Took throne at age 18, ruled 64 yrs. during which Great Britain became world power & a wealthy nation; married Prince Albert of Germany & had 9 children
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Queen Victoria
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The Republic established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III ending German occupation of France in WWII
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Third Republic
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A controversy in France in 1890's concerning the trial & imprisonment of a Jewish army officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been falsely accused selling military secrets to Germany (Prussia)
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Dreyfus Affair
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prejudice against Jews
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anti-semetism
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a movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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Zionism
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a nation/territory of the British Empire (ex. Canada) allowed to govern its own domestic affairs.
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dominion
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a Polynesian people who had settled in New Zealand around AD800 w/ a culture of farming, hunting & fishing.
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Maori
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native peoples of Australia; the largest ongoing culture in the world; nomadic hunters, fishers & food gatherers
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Aborigines
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a place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences (ex. Australia)
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Penal Colony
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Irish who preferred local control over internal matters only while others wanted total independence from Great Britain
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home rule
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an unofficial military force seeking independence of Ireland; staged repeated terrorist attacks against British officials in Ireland using guerilla tactics
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Irish Republican Army (IRA)
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the idea that the U.S. had the right & duty sanctioned by God to rule North America from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.
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Manifest Destiny
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Self-educated president of the U.S. (Union) during the Civil War ; fought to preserve the Union of northern & southern states & equality of men
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Abraham Lincoln
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to withdraw from the Union as a state & its government
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secede
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war between the southern & northern states over "states rights" & states being admitted as slave vs. free; Lincoln added the "Emancipation Proclamation" after the Union victory at Gettysburg, PA; the war lasted from April 12,1861-April 1865. North won, Union is preserved & Reconstruction of South begins.
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U.S. Civil War
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President Lincoln issued this edict declaring that all slaves in the areas they conquered would be set free & all slaves in Confederate states were free
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Emancipation Proclamation
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the separation of blacks & whites in the southern states
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Segregation
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a line of workers who put a single part on unfinished cars
as they passed by on a motorized carrier; mass production through specialization |
assembly line
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English naturalist who wrote the Origin of Species which described survival of the fittest, evolution of species & natural selection processes
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Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin's idea that species of plants & animals arose by a process of natural selection
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Theory of Evolution
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a form of energy released as atoms decay, discovered by Marie Curie who won 2 Nobel prizes for Chemistry but died of Leukemia induced by her experiments with this energy
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radioactivity
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study of human mind & behaviors
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psychology
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the appeal of art, writing, music, & other forms of entertainment to a larger audience
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mass culture
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