Chapter 25 Spiers

made using the study guide, includes everything on the study guide. The long answers are for essay questions.

Reform Act of 1832

lowered property qualifications for voting (more middle-class males could vote) and heavily populated cities had increased representation

Apportion

divide or share electoral districts

When did women over 30 get the right to vote in Britain?

1918 (Protests by the Suffragettes)

Causes of the Irish Potato Famine

* deadly fungus destroyed potato crop
* the Irish could not purchase land
* many Irish were Catholic and poor (catholics paid taxes to the Anglican church)

Effects of the Irish Potato Famine

* Mass Diaspora
* at least one million Irish died
* Mass immigration

Aborigines

original settlers of Australia (poorly treated and __**many died from disease**__)

Maori

original settlers of New Zealand (__**Introduction of firearms increased warfare, gold miners, and disease killed many)**__

Dominion

self-governing territory owing allegiance to the British king or queen

Dominion examples (3)

* Australia
* New Zealand
* Alberta

Year of European Revolutions

1848

Louis-Napoleon

nephew of Napoleon, elected President in 1848 and had very similar views as his uncle

Louis-Napoleon VS. Napoleon

* Both wanted to be Emperor
* Both won the support of the peasants/lower classes
* Both wanted a hereditary monarchy

Main cause of death during the Crimean War

Disease and War (Whether France or Russia had right to protect Christians in Ottoman Empire)

Results of the Third Republic in France

Made France a republic again, Two-house legislature, a weak president elected by both houses

Dreyfus Affair

French army officer Alfred Dreyfus convicted of selling military secrets to Germany (fueled by Anti-Semitism), won a presidential pardon and civilian court later declared him innocent

Which Latin American country gained independence from Portugal

Brazil

Year of Mexican Independence

1821

Simon Bolivar

Venezuelan creole starting in 1810 won independence for several South American countries

Jose de San Martin

won independence for Argentina, Peru,and Chile

Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

Both fought for independence for south/central american countries

Haitian v. Mexican Independence movements

* Both were fights for independence
* The Haitian Revolution was for freedom from France
* Mexico wanted freedom from Spain