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Chavez WH 26 Vocab
CH 26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Chartist Movement | Movement in England to give the right to vote to more people and to obtain other rights |
| Queen Victoria | Leader of Britain when democratic changes were occurring |
| Third Republic | Government formed in France after Napoleon III was exiled |
| Dreyfus Affair | Events surrounding the framing of a Jewish officer in the French army |
| Anti-Semitism | Prejudice against Jews |
| Zionism | Movement to establish a separate homeland in Palestine for the Jews |
| Dominion | Nation in the British Empire allowed to govern its own domestic affairs |
| Maori | Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand |
| Aborigine | Native people of Australia |
| Penal Colony | Place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences as an alternative prison |
| Home Rule | Local control over domestic affairs |
| Irish Republican Army | Unofficial military force seeking independence |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that the United States would rule the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the United States |
| U.S Civil War | War fought between the North and South from 1861-1865 |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 proclamation to free the slaves in the Confederate states |
| Segregation | Separation by race |
| Assembly Line | Arrangement by which a product in a factory is moved from worker to worker, with each worker completing a single step in the task |
| Charles Darwin | Scientist who developed the theory of evolution |
| Theory of evolution | Theory that all life on earth developed from simpler forms of life |
| Radioactivity | Form of energy released as atoms decay |
| Psychology | Study of the mind |
| Mass Culture | Art and entertainment appealing to a large audience |
| Amended | Changed |
| Bacteria | Microscopic organisms; germs |
| Confederate States of America | Name taken by the states that seceded from the Union leading to the U.S. Civil War |
| Decay | Break Down |
| Enactment | Officially becoming law |
| Exile | Absence from one's country |
| Framed | Made to appear guilty or assume the guilt for a crime one has not committed |
| Immigration | Movement into a country |
| Nationalists | People who are loyal to a particular nation or group of people |
| Nomadic | Without a fixed home |
| Patents | Inventor's rights to make, use, and sell his or her inventions |
| Prejudice | Unfair attitudes or beliefs, often aimed at a specific group |
| Provinces | Political divisions similar to states |
| Reform Bill of 1832 | Bill that gave some members of the middle class in Britain the right to vote |
| Secret Ballots | Method of voting in privacy |
| Subconscious | Part of the mind below the consciousness |
| Union | Name for the USA, during the Civil War |
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