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Chapter 11 Wrld His.
Chapter 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| As a result of ? in 1832, large towns and cities in Britain received greater representation in Parliament | The Great Reform Act |
| Through reforms that took place during the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself from a constitutional monarchy to a ? | Parliamentary Democracy |
| The British Corn Laws were supported by? | Farmers and wealthy landowners, because they kept grain prices high |
| What did the Catholic Emancipation Act accomplish in Ireland in 1829? | Irish Catholics were allowed to vote and hold office |
| What were the results of the social welfare reforms passed in Great Britain in the early 1900s? | Marxism gained only limited support among the British working class |
| What war brought an end to France's Second Empire? | Franco Prussian War |
| What was a result of widespread anti-Semitism in Europe in the late 1800s? | Theodore Herzl helped to launch modern Zionism |
| What did reformers in France do in order to repress the involvement of the Catholic Church in French govt? | Created a system of free public schools |
| In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized what? | The first women's right's convention |
| In the 1890s. U.S. farmers joined city workers to support which political party? | Populist Party |
| What were rotten boroughs in Britain? | Rural towns that had an unfairly large number of representatives in Parliament |
| What were the demands of the Chartist movement in Britain? | Secret Ballots |
| What happened after the French helped the Italian nationalists defeat Austria in the mid-1800s? | A united Italy became a rival on French's border |
| By the 1860s, Benjamin Disraeli had forged the old Tory Party into the modern ? party? | Conservative Party |
| What social issues did British social reforms of the mid-1800s correct? | 10 hour workdays |
| When it was founded in 1900, the British Labour Party was primarily made up of? | Socialists and union members |
| Charles Stewart Parnell was a leading figure in the? | Irish Nationalist Movement |
| In the 1800s, what were the reasons the Irish resented the British in Ireland? | Irish peasants paid high rents to British absentee landlords |
| What did Napoleon III hope to do in Mexico? | Turn Mexico into a French satellite |
| What socialist group had a strong influence on British politics? | The Fabian Society |
| How were French married women treated under the Napoleonic Code? | They had no rights to their earnings |
| What leader, backed by royalists and ultra-nationalists, was accused of plotting to overthrow the French republic? | Georges Boulanger |
| William Lloyd Garrison pushed for what kind of social change? | The end to slavery in the US |
| When were African Americans allowed to vote in the US? | After the 15th Amendment was passed |
| Which issue in the platform of the Populist Party eventually became a law in the US? | 8 hour workdays |
| The campaign against slavery and the slave trade | abolition movement |
| Crimes punishable by death | capital offense |
| Alliances of various parties | Coalition |
| The body of people allowed to vote | Electorate |
| Local self-government (such as the Irish finally got) | Home Rule |
| The purchase of land by Thomas Jefferson from France that virtually doubled the size of the nation | Louisiana Purchase |
| The claim that America's land was destined to spread across the entire continent, from sea to sea | Manifest Destiny |
| Anonymous voting that the Chartists wanted | Secret Ballot |
| Legal separation of the the races | Segregation |
| A movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in the ancient homeland, though of by Herzl | Zionism |
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