History Unit 26

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

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A- Great B- Britian C- France

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What is suffrage

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the right to vote

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

A- Great B- Britian C- France

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What is suffrage

the right to vote

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What political reforms expanded democracy for men in Britain?

1832- middle class can vote

1867- working class can vote

1884- rural men can vote

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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

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What is anti-Semitism?

prejudice against Jews

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What was the Dreyfus affair?

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

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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

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

A- Canada

B- Australia

C- New Zealand

D- Ireland

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What conflicts caused problems for Canada?

Religious and cultural differences

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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
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What are the Native people of Australia called?

Aborigines

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How did Britain Begin to colonize Australia in 1789?

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

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What was the first country to allow women to vote?

New Zealand

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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

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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

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

A- North

B- Civil

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What is the manifest destiny?

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

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

most of the southwest and California

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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

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

Emancipation Proclamation

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

the need for goods to be produced and distributed faster

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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

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Breakthrough in A and B transformed daily life and C

A- Science

B- Technology

C- entertainment

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Name 3 inventors and what they invented

  1. Thomas Edison- Light bulb
  2. Alexander Graham Bell - telephone
  3. Henry Ford- automobile
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What effects did the assembly line have on production costs?

It made it cheaper due to less time to make items

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What was Darwin’s principle of natural selction?

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

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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

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What is mass-culture?

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

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What are 3 popular mass-culture leisure activites.

  1. music halls
  2. movies
  3. sports
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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