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Flashcards by ms.briellecox, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ms.briellecox
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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