16.1 key terms
What is sufferage?
The right to vote
What were some of the effects of the Reform Bill of 1832?
Expanded voting rights and redistributed parliamentary seats
Who was queen Victoria?
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
What was dominion?
self-governing in domestic affairs but remained part of the British Empire.
What is anti-semitism?
Prejudice directed at jews
What was the goal of the WSPU in Britain?
to secure women's suffrage
Who was prince Albert?
husband and prince consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
What was Maori?
Polynesian people who had settled in New Zealand around AD 800.
What is the third republic?
A government established in France
Why was the road to democracy more difficult for France than for England?
France's violent revolution against an entrenched absolute monarchy
What are Aborigines?
as Europeans later called the native people.
What is Dreyfus affair?
A controversy battleground for opposing forces
What was the connection between anti-Semitism and Zionism?
Zionists viewed virulent European anti-semitism as proof that Jews needed a nation-state to escape the diaspora.
What was penal colony?
a place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences.
What is the Chartist movement?
Groups that could not vote to press for more rights
What was the significance of Zionism?
transforming Jewish identity, and shaping geopolitical relations in the Middle East.
What was the home rule?
local control over internal matters only.