Global History Regents Vocabulary - List #7
List #7 of Mr. Baldwin's Global History/Geography Regents Vocabulary, in preparation for the NY State Regents Exam in June.
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- Suffrage
- The right to vote.
- Chartist Movement
- In 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all MEN.
- anti-Semitism
- Prejudice against Jewish people.
- Zionism
- A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
- Dominion
- Within the British empire, this term refers to a nation allowed to govern its own interal (domestic) affairs.
- Assembly Line
- In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.
- Mass Culture
- The production of works of art and entertainment designed to apeal to a large audience.
- Imperialism
- A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
- Social Darwinism
- The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
- Boer
- A Dutch colonist in South Africa.
- Great Trek
- A migration of Dutch colonists out of British-controlled territory in South Africa during the 1830s.
- Boer War
- Lasting from 1899 to 1902, Dutch colonists and the British competed for control of territory in South Africa.
- Paternalism
- A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights.
- Assimilation
- The adoption of a different culture (including its institutions and customs) either by force or voluntarily.
- Geopolitics
- A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands.
- Gentry
- A class of powerful, well-to-do people who enjoy a high social status.
- Clergy
- A body of officials who perform religious services, such as priests, ministers or rabbis.
- Schism
- A split or division - especially a formal split within a Christian Church.
- Reconquista
- The effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492.
- Inquisition
- A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy - especially the one active in Spain during the 1400s.