Democratic Reform and Activism
The right to vote ...
Answer: suffrage.
In the British Empire, a nation (such as Canada) allowed to govern its own domestic affairs ...
Answer: dominion.
The 19th century belief that the U.S. would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory ...
Answer: manifest destiny.
In a factory, an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in its manufacture ...
Answer: assembly line.
The principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, active in England from 1838 to 1848 ...
Answer: Chartism.
A control over internal matters granted to the residents of a region by a ruling government ...
Answer: home rule.
The 1803 purchase by the U.S. of France’s Louisiana Territory – extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains – for $15 million ...
Answer: Louisiana Purchase.
The production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience ...
Answer: mass culture.
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901), and empress of India (1876-1901). Who am I?
Answer: Victoria.
British navigator and explorer: expeditions to the S Pacific, Antarctic oceans, and coasts of Australia and New Zealand. Who am I?
Answer: Captain James Cook.
16th president of the U.S., 1861-65. Who am I?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln.
The study of the human mind and human behavior ...
Answer: psychology.
The republic that was established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III and ended with the German occupation of France during World War II ...
Answer: Third Republic.
A member of any of the native peoples of Australia ...
Answer: Aborigine.
To withdraw formally from an association or alliance ...
Answer: secede.
U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices ...
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison.
A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine ...
Answer: Zionism.
The name of Quebec province, 1791-1841 ...
Answer: Lower Canada.
A conflict between Northern and Southern states of the United States over the issue of slavery, lasting from 1861 to 1865 ...
Answer: U.S. Civil War.
Polish physicist and chemist, in France: with her husband, Pierre, discovered radium in 1898 ...
Answer: Marie Curie.