Modern World History chapter 11 – Flashcards
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In1832 large towns and cities in Britain received greater representation in Parliament as a result of
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The Great Reform Act
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Though reforms that took place during the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself into
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Parliamentary Democracy
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The British Corn Laws were supported by
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Farmers and wealth landowners, because they kept grain prices high
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What did the Catholic Emancipation Act accomplish in Ireland in 1829?
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Irish Catholics were allowed to vote and hold office
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One result of the social welfare reforms passed in Great Britain in the early 1900s was that
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Marxism gained only limited support among the British working class
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What war brought an end to France's 2nd empire?
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Franco-Prussian War
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What was a result of widespread anti-semitism in Europe in the late 1800s?
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Theodore Herzl helped to launch modern Zionism
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In order to repress the involvement of the Catholic Church in French government, reformers
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Created a system of free public elementary schools
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In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized
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The 1st women's right convention
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In the 1890s, US farmers joined city workers to support the
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Populist Party
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Rotten boroughs in Britain were
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Rural towns that had an unfairly large # of representatives in Parliament
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The Chartist movement in Britain demanded
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Secret Ballots
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What happened after the French helped Italian nationalists defeat Austria in the mid-1800s?
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A united Italy became a rival on France's border
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By the 1860s Benjamin Disraeli had forged the old Tory Party into the modern
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Conservative Party
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New Laws Limited women and children to a 10hr work day
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when it was founded in 1900, the British Labour Party was primarily made up of
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Socialists and union members
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Charles Stewart Parnell was a leading figure in the
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Irish Nationalist Movement
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In the 1800s what was a major reason why the Irish resented the British in Ireland?
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Irish peasants paid high rents to british absentee landlords
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Through the aid of Prince Maximillian, Napoleon III hoped to turn
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Turn Mexico into a French satellite
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Which of the following was a socialist group that had a strong influence on British politics?
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The Fabian Society
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Under the Napoleonic Code, French married women
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Had no right to their own earnings
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What leader, backed by royalists and ultranationalists, was accused of plotting to overthrow the French
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Georges Boulanger
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William Lloyd Garrison pushed for what kind of social change?
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The end to slavery in the United States
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African Americans were allowed to vote in the US when
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Congress passed the 15th Amendment
