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Vocabulary
Reform Act
Miscellaneous
Social and Economic Reform
Manifest Destiny
100
When rural towns lost so many people that they had few or no voters.
Rotten Borough
100
This lower chamber of parliament allowed their members to be elected.
House of Commons
100
What is the leader of Parliament called?
Prime Minister
100
trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions.
Free Trade
100
Americans believe that our nation should spread across the continent, from sea to sea is known as......
Manifest Destiny
200
local self-government
Home rule
200
This upper chamber of Parliament was made up of nobles and high ranking clergy that could veto any bill passed.
House of Lords
200
Who is the greatest teacher of all time, regardless of color, height, hair length, ashyness, and voice crackles?
The Great Flembino aka Mr. Fleming aka Mild Dud head ahh, Arthur, aka all the other mean names you call me
200
The name of the laws that farmers and wealthy landowners supported because it kept the price of grains high were called
Corn laws
200
Considered to be the greatest real estate acquisition in American History, it doubled the sizeof the nation.
Louisiana Purchase
300
allowed people to cast their votes without announcing them publicly.
Secret Ballot
300
What were the two political parties battling over a bill to reform parliament and what group of people did they speak for?
Whigs and Tori's
300
What were the three french governments we discussed. List them in chronological order.
Second Republic Provisional government Third Republic
300
the campaign against slavery was called what?
abolition movement
400
The body of people allowed to vote
electorate
400
What two groups could not vote or serve in Parliament due to religious restrictions?
Catholics and non-Anglican Protestant
400
Zionism can be best described as
a movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in the ancient homeland.
400
Penal colonies were examples of economic, political, or social reform in Britain?
Political
500
A form of government in which the executive leaders are chosen by and responsible to the legislature, and are also members of it.
Parliamentary Democracy
500
What was the petition called that called for universal male suffrage, annual parliamentary elections, and salaries for MP.
Chartist Movement
500
What were the five ideals of the Victorian Age?
duty thrift respectability honesty hard work
500
Murder, shoplifting, sheep stealing, and impersonating an army veteran were all punishable by death. These are example of
capital offenses