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chp 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rotten borough | rural town in England that sent members to Parliament despite having few or no voters |
| electorate | the body of people allowed to vote |
| secret ballot | votes cast without announcing them publicly |
| Queen Victoria | longest-reigning monarch in British history; embodied the values of her age including duty, thrift, honesty, hard work, and respectability |
| Benjamin Disraeli | leader of the Conservative Party; pushed the Reform Bill of 1867 to increase suffrage in England |
| William Gladstone | leader of the Liberal Party; worked to extend suffrage to farm workers and most other men |
| parliamentary democracy | a form of government where ministers are chosen by, responsible to, and members of an elected legislature or parliament |
| free trade | trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions |
| repeal | to cancel a law |
| abolition movement | the campaign against slavery and the slave trade |
| capital offense | a crime punishable by death |
| penal colony | a settlement to which convicts were sent |
| absentee landlords | one who owns a large estate but does not live there |
| home rule | local self-government |
| Napoleon III | nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; took power after the revolution of 1848; achieved reforms in France, but foreign policy failures led to his capture and exile |
| Suez Canal | the canal that links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean |
| provisional | temporary |
| premier | the prime minister |
| coalition | an alliance of various political parties that join together to run a government |
| Dreyfus affair | the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus on spying; based on false evidence due to anti-Semitism in the French government |
| libel | the knowing publication of false and damaging information |
| Zionism | the movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in Palestine |
| expansionism | a policy of extending a nation’s boundaries |
| Louisiana Purchase | a large territory purchased from France in 1803 |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States was destined to expand from sea to sea across the entire North American continent |
| secede | to withdraw; usually referring to part a nation leaving in an attempt to gain independence |
| segregation | forced separation by race, sex, religion, or ethnicity |
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