Chapter 11 History Test

Tory Party

Spoke for nobles, landowners, and others who interests and income were rooted in agriculture

Daniel O'Conel

"the Liberator" Nationalist leader who organized an Irish Catholic League and demanded fair laws

When women were finally granted the right to vote in 1918, it only applied to women over the age of...

...30.

The current electorate in the United States consists of...

...all citizens over the age of eighteen.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were charged with the responsibility of...

...exploring the newly purchased lands of the Louisiana Purchase.

An advantage that the North had over the South in the Civil War was that...

...the North had more resources and industry than did the South.

In which decade did Parliament pass a law banning slavery in Britain and all of its colonies?

1830's

Abolition movement

Campaign against slavery and the slave trade

Suez Canal

Canal in Egypt to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean

Repeal

Cancel

In the 1820's, which groups earned the right to vote in Great Britain?

Catholics and non-Anglican Protestants

House of Lords

Could veto any bill passed by the House of Commons; made up of hereditary nobles and high-ranking clergy

Capital offenses

Crimes punishable by death

Louisiana Purchase

Doubled the size of the US

"Houses" in Britain

House of Lords and House of Commons

Corn Laws

Imposed high tariffs on imported grains and was supported by farmers and wealthy landowners because they kept the price of British grain high; was eventually repealed

What is the incentive for countries to impose high tariffs on imported goods?

It makes the price of imported goods higher, increasing the demand for domestic goods.

Whig Party

Largely represented middle-class and business interests led by William Gladstone that eventually evolved into the Liberal Party

Theodor Herzl

Launched modern Zionism

William Gladstone

Led the Whig Party

Segregation

Legal separation of the races

Home rule

Local self-government

What is the name of the Austrian Hapsburg prince that Napoleon placed on the throne of Mexico in an unsuccessful attempt to making Mexico a French satellite?

Maximilian

Charles Stewart Parnell

Moderate Irish nationalist that rallied Irish members of Parliament to press for home rule

Zionism

Movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in Palestine

Napoleon III

Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who rose to power and set up the Second Empire; eventually issued a new constitution that extended democratic rights, newspapers were censored, debate was limited

Why did French governments have to form coalitions to rule?

No political parties could take control

Fabian Society

Socialist organization that promoted gradual change through legal means rather than by violence

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Organized the building of the Suez Canal

Absentee landlords

Owned large estates but did not live on them

Dreyfusards

People who favor the side of Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus Affair

People's Charter

Petition that demanded universal male suffrage, annual parliamentary elections, secret ballot, and salaries for members of Parliament

Labour Party

Political party of socialists and union members

Chamber of Deputies

Powerful lower house of the Third Republic's two-house legislature that was elected by universal male suffrage and elected the president of the republic (who had little power and served mostly as a figurehead)

After the start of the Third Republic in France, who maintained the most power?

Premier

Great Reform Act

Redistributed seats in the House of Commons, giving representation to large towns and cities, eliminating rotten boroughs, enlarged the electorate by granting suffrage to more men, but still kept a property requirement for voting

Progressives

Reformers who sought laws to ban child labor, limit working hours, regulate monopolies, and give voters more power

Dreyfus Affair

Revealed strong anti-semitic feelings in France and launched modern Zionism

Rotten Boroughs

Rural towns in England that sent members to Parliament despite having few or no voters

Penal colonies

Settlements for convicts where British petty criminals were sent (Australia)

Provisional government

Temporary government - what republicans in Paris declared at the end to the Second Empire that led to France's Third Republic

Which U.S. president was responsible for purchasing the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803?

Thomas Jefferson

Electorate

The body of people allowed to voteq

Manifest Destiny

The idea that America was destined to spread across the entire continent of North America

Libel

The knowing publication of false and damaging statements

Victorian Age

The period from 1837 to 1901

What did France cede to Germany in the peace agreement signed in 1871?

The provinces of Alsace-Lorraine

Which action by the Liberal government in 1911 helped to eventually limit the power of the House of Lords?

They passed a measure that restricted the Lords ability to veto tax bills.

How were African Americans deprived of equality after the Civil War?

They were still segregated and still had no vote

Free Trade

Trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions

American Federation of Labor

Was formed to defend the interests of the American working class, especially factory workers

Communards

What the French rebels were called; included workers and socialists as well as bourgeois republicans

What failures in foreign affairs took place under Napoleon III?

When he put Maximillian on the throne of Mexico, he was overthrown; he suffered losses in the Crimean War; was captured by Russia

Parliamentary Democracy

A form of government in which the executive leaders (usually prime minister and cabinet) are chosen by and responsible to the legislature (parliament) and are also members of it

Emmeline Pankhurst

A leading women's suffrage activist who became convinced that only aggressive tactics would bring victory

William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist who pressed the anti-slavery cause through his newspaper, The Liberator

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist who was born into slavery

Coalitions

Alliances; these types of governments are usually unstable - France had 50 different coalition governments in the first 10 years of the Third Republic

Secret ballot

Allows people to cast their votes without announcing them publicly

In addition to the secret ballot, what was one of the demands of the Chartist movement?

Annual parliamentary elections

Expansionism

Extending the nation's boundaries

Benjamin Disraeli

Forged the Tories into the modern Conservative party

Jeanne-Elizabeth Schmahl

Formed the French Union for Women's Suffrage

Paris Commune

Goal was to save the Republic from royalists

Queen Victoria

Greatest symbol in British life whose reign was the longest in British history and who set the tone for the Victorian age

Alfred Dreyfus

Jewish army officer wrongly accused of spying for Germany who was tried for treason and found guilty and sent to Devil's Island (a penal colony)