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Chapter 23 Vocab. !
Key Terms & People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1837 she became the ruler of Great Britain ? | Queen Victoria |
| the era spanning the reign of Queen Victoria of England (1837-1901) ? | Victorian Era |
| During the years of 1868-1885 was an influential prime minister, and was also elected prime minister several times ? | Benjamin Disraeli |
| the right to vote ? | Suffrage |
| In the early 1900s she was the founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) ? | Emmeline Pankhurst |
| he was chosen to be the new king by the moderate liberal leaders who had formed a constitutional monarchy ? | Louis Philippe |
| he was Napoleon's nephew and was elected as president by voters ? | Louis Napoleon |
| a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s, involving the wrongful conviction of Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus for treason ? | Dreyfus Affair |
| hostility or prejudice towards Jews ? | Anti-Semitism |
| was a Hungarian-born Jewish journalist who covered the trail ? | Theodor Herzl |
| nationalist movement, begun in the 1890s, to establish a Jewish state in Palestine ? | Zionism |
| a former enslaved African who led a group of mulattoes and slaves in a bloody revolt against the French settlersB | Toussaint L'Ouverture |
| people of Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the Americas ? | Creoles |
| colonists in Latin America who were born on the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain or Portugal ? | Peninsulares |
| In 1810 he made the first public call for Mexican Independence ? | Miguel Hidalgo |
| he was a Creole Priest, and he became the leader of the revolutionary movement ? | Jose Maria Morelos |
| he was the most influential leader in the South American independence movement, and was also known as " The Liberator" ? | Simon Bolivar |
| he was fighting for independence from Spain in the South ? | Jose De San Martin |
| he was crowned Emperor of Brazil ? | Pedro I |
| Louisiana Purchase | |
| (1823) U.S. President James Monroe's statement forbidding further colonization in the Americas and declaring that any attempt by a foreign country to colonize would be considered an act of hostility by the United States ? | Monroe Doctrine |
| a belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the united should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans ? | Manifest Destiny |
| (1838-39) an 800-mile march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people ? | Trail of Tears |
| abolishment of slavery ? | Abolition |
| Abraham Lincoln | |
| the act of separating from ? | Secession |
| (1862) an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the enslaved people in areas rebelling against the union ? | Emancipation Proclamation |