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W His 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Chartist movement | In 19th century Britian, members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men |
| Queen Victoria | Queen of England from 1837 to 1901 - 64 years |
| Third Republic | Established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III and ended with the German occupation of France during WWII |
| Dreyfus affair | Controversy in France in 1890's centering on the trial and imprisonment of a Jewish officer who had been falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany |
| Zionism | Movement founded in 1890's to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland |
| dominion | A nation belonging to an Empire which is allowed to govern its own domestic affairs |
| Maori | A member of a Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand around A.D. 800 |
| Aborigine | A member of any of the native poeples of Australia |
| Home rule | Control over internal matters granted to the residents of a region by a ruling government |
| Irish Republican Army | An unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britian |
| Manifest Destiny | The right and duty of the United States to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of US, Pres. during Civil War |
| Secede | To formally withdraw from an association or alliance |
| US Civil War | Conflict between the Northern and Southern states of the United States over the issue of slavery |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Declaration issued by Pres. Abrahan Lincoln in 1863, stating that all slaves in Confederate states were free |
| Segregation | The legal or social separation of people of different races |
| Assembly line | An arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in its manufacture |
| Charles Darwin | man who developed theory that all forms of life, including human beings, evolved from earlier living forms that had existed millions of years ago |
| Theory of Evolution | Species of plants and animals arise by means of a process of natural selection (survival of the fittest) |
| Radioactivity | Form of energy released as atoms decay |
| Psychology | Study of human mind and human behavior |
| Mass Culture | Production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience |
| Penal colony | Colony to which convicts are sent as an alternative to prison |
| In England in the early 1800's who had the right to vote? | Men who owned large amounts of land |
| Reform Bill of 1832 | Gave middle class English suffrage-right to vote |
| Who ran the British govern in the 1800's? | Almost completely by the Prime Minister and Cabinet |
| Who formed the Women's Social and Political Union? | Emmeline Pankhurst |
| Which group wins suffrage in Britian and Europe after WWII? | Women |
| Anti-Semitism | Prujudice against Jews, strongest in Europe |
| Durham Report | Lord Durham recommends reuniting Upper and Lower Canada into one Province of Canada,British immigration should be encouraged, increase of British will allow French culture to blend with British, Canada should be allowed to govern their domestic matters |
| First prime minister of Canada | John MacDonald |
| Captain who claims New Zealand for Britian. | James Cook |
| Native people of New Zealand | Moari |
| Gasden Purchase | 1853, establishes current U.S. boundaries |
| Civil War Amendments | 13-freed slaves, 14-made slaves citizens, 15- gave them right to vote |
| Transcontinental Railroad | 1869, links east and west together, nearly 200,000 miles of track-allow quick movement of goods and raw materials |
| Discovered existence of bacteria | Louis Pasteur |
| Discovered link between bacteria and infection problems | Joseph Lister |
| Who's work became the science of genetics? | Gregor Mendel |
| Who theorized that all matter is made of atoms? | John Dalton |
| Created periodic table of elements | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Who discovered radioactive particles? | Marie and Pierre Curie |
| Atoms have a nucleus surrounded by electrons | Ernest Rutherford |
| Believed human actions actually unconscious reactions | Ivan Pavlov |
| Studied mind, developed psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
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