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Chapter 23
Key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Queen Victoria | became the ruler of Great Britain. |
| Victorian Era | The longest in British history lasted until 1901. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | William Gladstone were elected prime minister several times. |
| suffrage | Or the right to vote. |
| Emmeline Pankhurst. | founder of the Womens social and political Union. |
| Louis philippe | to be the new king. |
| Louis Napoleon | was elected president. |
| Dreyfus affair | Divisions continued to split French society and in 1894 these divisions came to a head over the controversial court case known as the _____________ |
| anti-Semitism | or predjuduce towards jews in france. |
| Theodor Herzl | was a hungarian-born Jewish journalist who covered the trial. |
| Zionism | a jewish nationalist movement to re-create a Jewish state in its original homeland. |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | a former enslaved African, led a group of mulattoes and slaves in a bloody revolt against the French settlers. |
| creoles | People of European descent who were born in the colonies. |
| pininsulares | colonists who wre born in Spain. |
| Miguel Hidalgo | made the first public call for Mexican independence. |
| Jose Maria Morelos | became the leader of the revovlutionaray movement. |
| Simon Bolivar | his is known as simiply the liberator because of his key role in liverating Spains colonies in South America. |
| Jose de San Martin | was fighting for independence from spain in the south. |
| Pedro I | used to be emperor of Brazil. |
| Louisiana Purchase | with france, an agreement that gave the U.S. a huge territory in central North america. |
| Monroe Doctrine | President James Monroe went so far as to declare the america's off limits to further European colonization. |
| manifest destiny | to describe this belief. |
| Trail of Tears | the Cherokee march to the Indian Territory was so deadly that it became known as ________ __ _____ |
| abolition | or the end of slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | as president south carolina decided to secede or separate from the Union. |
| secession | the seperation from the Union. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln declared all slaves free in some areas of the Confederate states. |