democracy and reform
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- apportion
- divide and share electoral districts more fairly
- disenfranchised
- deprived of the right to vote
- suffragettes
- lead voting rights campaign
- home rule
- self-government
- dominion
- self governing territory
- ultraroyalists
- nobles favoring a return to the old order
- coup d'etat
- quick seizure of power
- plebiscite
- national vote
- sectionalism
- the devotion to the political and economic interest of a region
- secede
- with draw
- ratify
- approve
- peninsulares
- colonial leaders born in Spain
- creoles
- white aristocrats
- mestizos
- Latin American of mixed native American and European ancestry
- Electoral Reforms
- The Reform Act of 1832
- Reform Act of 1832
- lowered property qualifications for voting and gave more middle class males the right to vote
- Reform movements
- disenfranchised, charists
- Political parties
- the tories and the whigs and the cooperative party and the old tory party
- Political leadership
- Queen Victoria, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli
- William Gladstone
- served 4 times as prime minister between 1869- 1894.
- Benjamin Disraeli
- 2 terms as prime minister briefly in 1868, 1874-1880
- Growth of Deomocracy
- the working class, women and Irish Catholics began to influence political life
- Rise of labor
- Labor unions
- Constitutional crisis
- called for higher taxes in budget of 1909
- Women demand greater rights
- leader Emmeline Pankhurst