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24 Cards in this Set
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Suffrage |
The right to vote |
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Chartist movement |
Expands suffrage and reform politics |
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Queen Victoria |
Rules for 64 years at height of British power |
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Third republic |
French government formed in 1875, lasts for 60 years |
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Dreyfus affair |
Spy controversy over Jewish officer in French army |
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Anti- semitism |
Prejudice against Jews, strong in much of Europe |
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Zionism |
Movement for Jewish homeland- grows after Dreyfus affair |
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Dominion |
Self-governing but part of British empire |
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Maori |
Native people of new zeland |
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Aborigines |
Australia natives |
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Penal colony |
Place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences |
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Home rule |
Local control over internal affairs |
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Irish Republican army |
Unofficial military force seeking independence |
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Manifest destiny |
U.S. has duty to rule ocean to ocean |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Elected in 1860, fiercely opposed the south |
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Secede |
Withdraw from the union |
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U.S. civil war |
North defeats south after bitter fighting |
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Emancipation proclamation |
Lincoln declares all southern slaves be free |
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Segregation |
Separation of blacks and whites become policy in south |
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Charles Darwin |
English scientists developed theory of evolution |
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Theory of evolution |
Species change slowly through natural selection |
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Radioactivity |
Type of energy discovered by Marie and Pierre curie |
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Psychology |
Study of human mind, behavior |
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Mass culture |
Art, music, writing, entertainment for large audience |
