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Ch. 23 Vocab
Keyterms and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Queen Victoria | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 and empress of India from 1876 to 1901; she led the longest reign in all of British history and allowed Parliament to become more involved in running the government. |
| Victorian Era | The era spanning the reign of Queen Victoria of England. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | British statesman; as prime minister, he oversaw the passage of key reforms, including an extension of male suffrage. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | British woman suffragist; she founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. In support of women's suffrage, she led hunger strikes and was arrested often for her actions. |
| Louis Philippe | King of France from 1830 to 1848; he came to power after the July Revolution and he was known as the "citizen king" for showing an interest in the working class and having much in common with the middle class. |
| Louis Napoleon | Emperor of France from 1852 to 1870; after winning the presidential election in 1848, he staged a coup d'etat and took absolute power. A nephew of Napoleon I, he ruled during a time of economic prosperity in France. |
| Dreyfus affair | A political sandal that divided France in the 1890s, involving the wrongful conviction of Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus for treason. |
| anti-Semitism | Hostility or prejudice towards Jews. |
| Theodor Herzl | Hungarian Zionist leader; in 1896 he wrote The Jewish State, which outlined plans for an independent Jewish country. |
| Zionism | Nationalist movement, begun in the 1890s, to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | Haitian patriot and martyr; he took control of Hispaniola for the French and was a hero of the people. Napoleon felt threatened by his growing popularity and had him captured and killed in 1803. |
| creoles | People of Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the Americas. |
| peninsulares | Colonists in Latin American who were born on the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain or Portugal. |
| Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican priest and revolutionary; he made the first public call for Mexican independence. In 1810 he rang a bell in his hometown calling the peasants to fight for independence from Spain. He was captured and executed. |
| Jose Maria Morelos | Creole priest; he became the leader of the revolutionary movement in Mexico after Miguel Hidago's death. |
| Simon Bolivar | South American revolutionary who led independence wars in the present nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. |
| Jose de San Martin | South American revolutionary; he led troops in Argentina, Chile, and Peru and gained independence for these nations. |
| Pedro I | First emperor of Brazil; he declared Brazil's independence form Portugal, where Pedro's father was king. |
| Louisiana Purchase | |
| Monroe Doctrine | U.S President James Monroe's statement forbidding further colonization in the Americas and declaring that any attempt by a foreign country to coloize would be considered an act of hsility |
| manifest destiny | A belief shared by many A mericans in the mid 1800s that United States should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. |
| Trail of Tears | An 800 mile march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-forth of the Cherokee people. |
| abolition | Abolishment of slavery. |
| Abraham Lincoln | |
| secession | The act of separating from. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the enslaved people in areas rebelling against the Union. |
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