History Unit 26

Spurred by the demands of the people, A B and C underwent democratic reforms

A- Great B- Britian C- France

What is suffrage

the right to vote

Spurred by the demands of the people, A B and C underwent democratic reforms

A- Great B- Britian C- France

What is suffrage

the right to vote

What political reforms expanded democracy for men in Britain?

1832- middle class can vote

1867- working class can vote

1884- rural men can vote

Why did the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain become more militant? Who led it?

they wanted to draw more attention to women suffrage

Emmeline Pankhurst

What is anti-Semitism?

prejudice against Jews

What was the Dreyfus affair?

The battleground for people who wanted the monarch or military to rule v.s. those who don’t

Persecution of A was severe in Eastern Europe. The long history of exile and persecution led them to work for a homeland in B

A- Jews

B- Palestine

Britain allowed self-rule in A, B and C but delayed it for D

A- Canada

B- Australia

C- New Zealand

D- Ireland

What conflicts caused problems for Canada?

Religious and cultural differences

What were 2 major reforms urged by the Durham report?

1. Upper and Lower Canada should be a province
2. British immigration should be encouraged

What are the Native people of Australia called?

Aborigines

How did Britain Begin to colonize Australia in 1789?

They convicted criminals and established a penal colony (place were sentences are served)

What was the first country to allow women to vote?

New Zealand

What are the main countries to which the Irish emigrated during the famine from 1845-1851? What caused the famine?

United States, Britain, Canada, Australia

A plant fungus ruined the potatoes

Many Irish wanted A B which meant they have local control over internal matters only. After much delay, Britain finally granted it, but only to C

A- Home

B-Rule

C- North

The United States expanded across A America and fought a B war

A- North

B- Civil

What is the manifest destiny?

the idea that the United States had the right to rule North America from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

What territory did the Mexican American War open up to American settlers?

most of the southwest and California

Why was the issue of slavery in the United States so divisive?

people thought it was right while other thought it was wrong and many disagreed with Abraham Lincoln

in 1863, what document declared that all slaves in the Confederate states were free?

Emancipation Proclamation

How did the Civil War speed up America’s Industrialiazation?

the need for goods to be produced and distributed faster

As settlers moved west, congress authorized money to build a transcontinental A. When completed in 1869, it carried linked B to the eastern United States

A- Railroad

B- California

Breakthrough in A and B transformed daily life and C

A- Science

B- Technology

C- entertainment

Name 3 inventors and what they invented

1. Thomas Edison- Light bulb
2. Alexander Graham Bell - telephone
3. Henry Ford- automobile

What effects did the assembly line have on production costs?

It made it cheaper due to less time to make items

What was Darwin’s principle of natural selction?

The population grows faster than the food making only the fittest able to survive

What social science deals with the study of the human mind and behavior? Name two pioneers in this field and what they believed?

Psychology

Ivan Pavlov- the human mind had unconscious actions to things that could be changed by training

Sigmund Freud- unconscious minds drive how people think and act and that shapes behavior

What is mass-culture?

the appeal of art, writing, music, and entertainment to large audiences

What are 3 popular mass-culture leisure activites.

1. music halls
2. movies
3. sports

The rise A B improved communications and made workdays C which left more time for D activities and a demand for mass entertainment activities

A- mass

B-culture

C- shorter

D- leisure