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33 Cards in this Set
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suffrage
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right to vote
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Chartist movement
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movement in England to give the right to vote to more people and to obtain other rights
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Queen Victoria
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leader of Great Britain when democratic changes were occuring
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Third Republic
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Government formed in France after Napolean III was exiled
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Dreyfus Affair
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Events surrounding the framing of a Jewish officer in the French army
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anti-Semitism
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Prejudice against Jews
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Zionism
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movement to establish a separate homeland in Palestine for the Jews
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dominion
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Nation in the British Empire allowed to govern its own domestic affaris
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Maori
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Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand
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Aborigine
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Native people of Australia
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penal colony
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place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences as an alternative to prison
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home rule
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local control over domestic affairs
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manifest destiny
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belief that the US would rule the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
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Abraham Lincoln
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16th president of the US
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secede
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to leave the nation
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US Civil War
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War fought between North & South from 1861-1865
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Emancipation Proclamation
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1863 proclamation to free the slaves in the Confederate States
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segregation
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separation by race
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assembly line
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arrangement by which a product in a factory is moved from worker to worker, with each worker completing a single step in the task
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mass culture
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art and entertainment appealing to a large audience
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Charles Darwin
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developed theory
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theory of evolution
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life on earth developed from simpler life forms
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radioactivity
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energy released when atoms decay
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psychology
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study of human mind
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Thomas Edison
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invented light bulb
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guglieomo Marconi
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invented Radio
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented telephone
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Henry Ford
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invented car
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Ivan Pavlov
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psychology/dogs
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Marie Curie
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discovered radioactivity
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Louis Pasteur
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bacteria/germ theory
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Wilbur Wright
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First airplane
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Sigmund Freud
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psychology/subconscious mind
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