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"