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Chapter 25 history

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Coup d'etat
quick seizure of power
Whigs
liberal minority party
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte
The nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Became Napoleon III
Charles X
after Louis's death, his brother set out to restore the constitutional monarchy
The reform act of 1832
lowered property qualifications, gave more middle class males the right to vote, the proportion of voting increased from 1 in 100 to 1 in 32 men, took representation rights away from areas that had declined in pouplation
william gladstone
Liberal PM, "great ministry", he was depply religious and tried to attemp this in politics. directed reforms in government administration, education, and elections. Acts; A civil service reform of 1870, examinations who panted to participate in civil service: The Education Act of 1870; The Ballot Act of 1872; Redistribution Act of 1888, created electoral districts almost equal in population
The Aborigines
original people of Austria
The Chartists
an reform group of the working class. (Voting rights to all adult men, no property qualifications for voting, a secret ballot, salaries for for members of parliament so that the middle and the lower classes could take seats, and epual electoral districts
Louisiana Purchase
All the land between the Mississipi River and the Rocky Mountains
Louis Philippe
cousin of Charles, "The citizen king"
Georges Boulanger
war hero
Great Hunger
Potatoe famine in Ireland, diseases spread through the potato crop and destroyed it
dominion
self-governing territory owing allegiance to the British king or queen.
Louis XVIII
King of France in 1815
Alfred Dryfus
French Army officer
Plebiscite
national vote
apportion
divide and share electoral districts more fairly
The labour Party
A new political party, (spoke up for the workers), the legislation provided the working class with old age pensions, a minimum wage, unemplyment assistance, and health and unemployment insurance
The Fabians
a group of middle class intelectuals, favored parliamentary action over strikes and demonstrations
1911 Parliament Act
narrowed the powers of the House of Lords by removing bills from their controll
ultraroyalists
nobles favoring a return to the old order
Three glorious day
workers and peasant forced Charles X to abdicate the throne
Emmeline Pankhurst
"Women's Social and Political Union
Parnell
Led Irish nationalists seeking a debate on home-rule (selfgovernment)
Benjamin Disraeli
PM in conservative party; believed that the Conservative party could save aristocratic traditions while adopting democratic reforms. Bills; Conservative backed reform bill; lowering property qualifications for voters, it extended the vote to all male homeowners and most men who rented property
disenfranchised
(the industrial and farm worker) no voting rights,
John A. Macdonald
1 PM of Canada
Suffragettes
People who fought for their rights
The Maori
Foreigners who brought problems for the original people
Tory
conservative party
Ratify
approve
secede
withdraw
The league
first major political pressure group in Geat Brittain ( captured public attention with lectures, pamphlets, books, and meetings)
sectionalism
the devotion to the political and economic interest of a region or a section of the country
The Marseillaise
Song of France
Gadsden Purchase
U.S stretched from "sea to shining sea"

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