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Lesson 8 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Britain's law making group | Parliament |
| The house of Parliament that is elected | The House of Commons |
| The house of Parliament that is not elected | The House of Lords |
| Another word for vote | Suffrage |
| Members and supporters of the Paris Commune that was formed in the wake of the Franco-Prussian war and France's defeat. | Communards |
| The extension of voting rights to all citizens without restrictions based on sex, race, religious belief, wealth or social status. | Universal suffrage |
| Another word for tax | Tariff |
| Granted seats in the House of Commons to large cities that had sprung up during the Industrial Revolution, and removed seats from the "rotten boroughs" | The Reform Act of 1832 |
| A qualification for office or for the exercise of a right, especially the right to vote, based on the ownership of property | Property qualifications |
| The republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the 1851 coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire | Second Republic |
| An uprising staged by the workers of France from 23 June to 26 June 1848. | The June Days |
| A working class movement, which emerged in 1836 and was most active between 1838 and 1848. | Chartists |
| A piece of British legislation that enfranchised part of the urban male working class in England. | Reform Act of 1867 |
| Votes that are cast in secret | Secret Ballot |
| Creator of the Conservative Party | Benjamin Disraeli |
| The head of an elected government | Prime Minister |
| A series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848. | Revolution of 1848 |
| A radical socialist and revolutionary government | Paris Commune |
| The system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed. | Third Republic |
| Measures enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846, which imposed restrictions and tariffs on imported grain. | Corn Laws |
| Laws which further extended the suffrage in Britain after the Disraeli Government's Reform Act 1867. | Reform Act of 1884 |
| It is constitutionally important and partly governs the relationship between the House of Commons and the House of Lords which make up the Houses of Parliament. | Parliament Act of 1911 |
| King of France that was exiled | Charles X |
| A person who holds non radical views | Moderate |
| A person who supports monarchs | Monarchist |
| A formal request to an authority with respect to a particular cause. | Petition |
| An English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to eradicate the slave trade. | William Wilberforce |
| The only President of the French Second Republic and, as Napoleon III, the Emperor of the Second French Empire. | Louis Napoleon III |
| What was the first act to include practically all men in the political system and began the inclusion of women. | Reform Act of 1918 |
| A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims. | Radical |