Studied by 2 peopleSpurred 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?
Upper and Lower Canada should be a province
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
Thomas Edison- Light bulb
Alexander Graham Bell - telephone
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.
music halls
movies
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
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