Vocabulary
Key Terms
Places
Legislation
People
100
An election district with few or no voters.
What is a rotten borough?
100
Crime punishable by death.
What is capital offense?
100
The nation France, under Napoleon III, lost a major war in 1871.
What is Prussia?
100
The First Reform Act of 1832 increased the electorate but maintained this requirement.
What is the property requirement?
100
Often considered to be the great symbol in British life, this person provided stability and held the longest reign in British history.
Who was Queen Victoria?
200
The policy of a nation to increase its territory.
What is expansionism?
200
A settlement for convicts.
What is penal colony?
200
The land that the United States annexed from Mexico in 1845.
What is Texas?
200
This reform bill doubled the number of voters and was spearheaded by Benjamin Disraeli.
What is the Second Reform Act of 1867?
200
This man created the modern Conservative Party, or the Tories.
Who is Benjamin Disraeli?
300
A landowner who lives far away from his property.
What is an absentee landlord?
300
The campaign against slavery and the slave trade.
What is the abolition movement?
300
The nation for which Daniel O'Connell was a prominent nationalist.
What is Ireland?
300
Three of the demands of the Chartist group.
What are salaries for legislators, the secret ballot, and universal male suffrage?
300
This man led the Liberal Party, or the Whigs.
Who was William Gladstone?
400
A form of government in which politicians are elected to make decisions for voters.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
400
The concept that a population has the right to take over territory.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
The primary penal colony established by Great Britain in the late 18th century.
What is Australia?
400
These laws imposed high tariffs that were useful to farmers but were repealed in 1846.
What are the Corn Laws?
400
This man was nicknamed "the Liberator" and was an Irish Nationalist who declared that his goal "is to get Ireland for the Irish."
Who is Daniel O’Connell?
500
A form of government in which small political parties form alliances to to create majorities that can elect prime ministers.
What is a coalition?
500
The movement that encouraged a return to the holy land.
What is Zionism?
500
The construction project completed by France during Napoleon III's reign.
What is the Suez Canal?
500
A law that was passed through parliament in 1914 but not enacted until 1921
What is home rule for Ireland?
500
He taught himself to read and write and later authored a famous autobiography.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
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