| A | B |
|---|
| apportion | to divide into assigned shares |
| disenfranchised | denied the right to vote |
| the Fabians | favored parliamentary action over strikes and demonstrations |
| suffragettes | woman who actively worked to win voting rights for women |
| home rule | self-government, especially when granted to a dependant country |
| the Loyalists | Americans loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution |
| dominion | a self-governing nation within the British Empire, later the Commonwealth |
| ultraloyalists | nobles favoring a return to the old order |
| plebiscite | a direct popular vote on a program or issue |
| sectionalism | overemphasis on the political and economic interests of one's own region |
| secede | to withdraw formally from membership in a political organization |
| ratify | to give formal approval |
| Benjamin Disraeli | introduced the Reform Bill of 1867 increasing the British electorate by about 1 million men |
| William Gladstone | British Prime Minister, known for social reforms including secret ballot and education Act of 1870 |
| Dreyfus Affair | notorious French political scandal of the Third Republic |
| Gadsden Purchase | allowed the United States to stretch from "Sea to Sea" |
| Charles X | Sout to restore absolute monarchy in France following his brother, Louis XVIII, death |
| Louisiana Territory | Land acquired between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, purchased by Thomas Jefferson |
| Woodrow Wilson | President who urged Congress to pass amendment guaranteeing the vote to allUS citizens |
| Louis Napoleon | directed a coup d'etat on December 2, 1851, dissolved the National Assembly |
