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Frage | Antworten |
Rotton Borough | Rural towns with no population that landowners used to send members to parliament. |
Electorate | The body of people allowed to vote |
Secret Ballot | A way for people to cast their votes... secretly |
Queen Victoria | Queen of Britain from 1837 - 1901. Had the longest reign in british history. Set tone for Victorian age where middle class was confident in the future |
Benjamin Disraeli | Leader of the Tories who became the modern Conservative Party |
William Gladstone | Leader of the Whigs who became the Liberal Party |
Parliamentary Democracy | Form of government in which the executive leaders (usually a prime minister and cabinet) are chosen by and responsible to the legislature (parliament) ,and are also members of it |
Free Trade | Trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions |
Repeal | To cancel |
Abolition Movement | The campaign against slavery and the slave trade |
Capital Offenses | Crimes punishable by death. Before British reforms were murder, shoplifting, sheep stealing, and impersonating an army veteran. After reforms were murder, piracy, treason, and arson. |
Penal Colonies | Settlements for convicts. |
Absentee Landlords | British landowners who owened huge estates in Ireland but did not live on them. |
Home Rule | Local self government |
Napoleon III | Lifted censorship and gave legislature more power. Promoted investment in industry and large-scale ventures (railroad building and the urban renewal of Paris) Legalized labor unions, extended public education to girls, and created small health program. |
Suez Canal | A canal in Egypt, that would link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean |
Provisional | A temporary government that evolved into France's Third Republic |
Premier | Prime Minister, who had most of the power in the Third Republic. More than the elected president. |
Coalitions | Alliances with various parties in government |
Dreyfus Affair | What they called the uproar about Dreyfus who was allegedly a spy. His followers or whatever were called Dreyfusards |
Libel | The knowing publication of false damaging statements |
Zionism | A movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state |
Expansionism | Extending the nations boundaries |
Louisiana Purchase | The purchase of land that pretty much doubled the size of the nation. President Thomas Jefferson bought it from France. |
Manifest Destiny | The Americans claimed that their nation was destined to sread across the entire contrinent, from sea to sea. |
Seceded | To withdraw from |
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