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Reform Vocabulary
Vocabulary for Reform, revolution, war
Term | Definition |
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Queen Victoria | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 and empress of India from 1876 to 1901, she allowed Parliament to become more involved in running the government |
Victorian Era | The era spanning the reign of Queen Victoria of England |
Benjamin Disraeli | British statesman; as prime minister, he oversaw the passage of key reforms, including an extension of male suffrage |
Suffrage | The right to vote |
Emmeline Pankhurst | British woman suffragist; she founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, In support of women's suffrage, she led hunger strikes and was arrested often for her actions |
Louis Philippe | King of France from 1830 to 1848; he came to power after the July Revolution and he was known as the "citizen king" He showed an interest in the working class |
Louis Napoleon | Emperor of France from 1852 to 1870; after winning the presidential election in 1848, he staged a coup d'état and took absolute power |
Dreyfus affair | A political scandal that divided France in the 1890s, involving the wrongful conviction of Jewish army officer for treason |
Anti-Semitism | Hostility or prejudice towards Jews |
Theodor Herzl | Hungarian Zionist leader; in 1896 he wrote The Jewish State, which outlined plans for an independent Jewish country |
Zionism | Nationalist movement, begun in the 1890's to establish a Jewish state in Palestine Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Creoles | People of Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the Americas |
Peninsulares | Colonists in Latin American who were born on the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain or Portugal |