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World History Ch 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who created the modern Conservative Party? | Benjamin Disraeli |
| A form of government led by a prime minister | parliamentary democracy |
| Who led the Liberal Party? | William Gladstone |
| An election district with few or no voters | rotten borough |
| The body of people allowed to vote | electorate |
| The Reform Act of 1832 gave a greater political voice to | middle-class men |
| Among the demands of the Chartists were: | universal male suffrage and a secret ballot |
| Who was a symbol of values such as honesty and hard work? | Queen Victoria |
| The Reform Bill of 1867: | doubled the number of voters |
| What major step toward democracy did Britain take in 1911? | It curbed the power of the unelected House of Lords |
| Trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions was called: | free trade |
| abolition movement was: | the campaign against slavery and the slave trade |
| Crime punishable by death is called a: | capital offense |
| penal colony was a: | settlement for convicts |
| absentee landlord was: | An owner of a large estate who did not live on it |
| Why did some business leaders support free trade? | They felt consumers would benefit from competition |
| Membership grew, and workers gained many protections and benefits; this describes: | British labor unions in the 1800s |
| One reason Marxism did not gain much support from British workers. | The British government passed many social welfare laws |
| The suffragists were reformers who wanted to: | get women the right to vote |
| Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell were: | Irish nationalists |
| provisional | temporary |
| Zionism | A movement supporting the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine |
| coalition | an alliance of various political parties |
| premier | prime minister |
| libel | the knowing publication of false and damaging statements |
| What event ended a long period of French domination of Europe? | defeat by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War |
| Napoleon III's failures in foreign affairs included | his attempts to place Maximilian on the Mexican throne |
| What caused France's political system and government to be unstable? | its coalition governments |
| The Dreyfus affair grew out of: | anti-Semitism |
| Describe the church-state relations in France in the early 1900s | The government tried to limit the power of the church |
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