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Chapter 26
Democracy and Progress
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections. |
| Reform Bill of 1832 | Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced major changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. |
| Chartist Movement | Was a working class movement, which emerged in 1836 and was most active between 1838 and 1848. The aim was to gain political rights and influence for the working classes. |
| Queen Victoria | Was the matriarch of the British Empire. She epitomized the values of the era and carved out a new role for the monarchy. She presided over the social and industrial transformation of Britain, as well as expansion of the empire. |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | Was a British political activist. She is best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the right to vote. |
| Emily Davidson | Was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. |
| Third Republic | Was the system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War |
| Dreyfus Affair | Was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. |
| Emile Zola-J'accuse | Was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. |
| Antisemitism | Is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. |
| Pogrom | An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe. |
| Zionism | A movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. |
| Dominion | A dominion was one of the semi-independent polities under the British Crown that constituted the British Empire, beginning with Canadian Confederation in 1867 |
| James Cook | Was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy. |
| Assembly Line | A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. |
| Evolution | Is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. |
| Pasturization | Is a process in which packaged and non-packaged foods are treated with mild heat, usually to less than 100 °C, to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life. |
| Figurehead | In politics, a figurehead is a person who appears to hold an important and often supremely powerful title or office, yet de facto exercises little to no actual power. |
| J'accuse | An open letter by Émile Zola to the president of the French Republic in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer who had been accused of treason by the French army. |
| Mass Culture | Cultural products that are both mass-produced and for mass audiences. Examples include mass-media entertainments—films, television programmes, popular books, newspapers, magazines, popular music, leisure goods, household items, clothing, and mechanically- |
| Sigmund Freud | Was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. |
| Irish Catholics | Are an ethno religious group native to Ireland that are both Catholic and Irish. |
| British Penal Colony | Or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. |
| Ivan Pavlov | Was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. |
| Marie and Pierre Curie | Marie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Pierre was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. |
| Joseph Lister | Was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. |
| Periodic Table of Elements | Is a tabular display of the chemical elements, which are arranged by atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties. Dmitri Mendeleev organized the first version. |
| Ernest Rutherford | Was a New Zealand–born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. |
| Natural Selection | The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution. |
| Home Rule | Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. |
| Thomas Edison | Was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. |
| Suffragette | Was a member of an activist women's organisations in the early 20th century. |
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