| A | B |
|---|
| rotten boroughs | rural town, mostly abandoned of voters, who still "sent" members to Parliament |
| Chartism | the people's movement for radical reform such as universal male suffrage and annual elections |
| Victoria | British Queen who we associate with the proper, conservative age of values and hard work |
| Benjamin Disraeli | prime minister and leader of the British Conservative party |
| William Gladstone | led the British Liberal party, also prime minister |
| home rule | local self-government, as Ireland wanted |
| Corn Laws | required high tariffs in Britain on imported grains |
| Fabian Society | a socialist organization in Britain that promoted change by non-violent methods |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | a leading woman suffragist in England in the early 1900s |
| Catholic Emancipation Act | allowed Catholics to vote and hold office |
| Great Hunger | terrible Irish famine in 1845 when a blight killed off potatoes |
| Charles Stewart Parnell | Irish leader who pushed Parliament for home rule |
| coalition | political party alliances |
| Alfred Dreyfus | a commanding general falsely accused of spying and ripped of his uniform |
| Paris Commune | set up by a radical group of rebels trying to save France from royal control |
| Georges Boulanger | a popular French Minister of War involved in a scandel to overthrow the Republic |
| Theodor Herzl | Jewish leader from France who started the Zionist movement |
| Jeanne-Elizabeth Schmahl | founder of the French Union for Women's Suffrage |
| segregation | legal separation of the races in public places |
| isolationism | limited involvement in world affairs |
| Louisiana Purchase | large territory in America that President Jefferson purchased from France |
| manifest destiny | the American belief that they had the right to spread all across the American continent |
| Frederick Douglass | a freed slave who spoke widely in the North against slavery in the U.S. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | a meeting in New York to discuss women's rights before the law |
| Abraham Lincoln | American President during the Civil War |
| Fifteenth Amendment | African-American men were allowed to vote |
| Progressives | a movement in the U.S. to promote improved labor laws and women's suffrage |
| "Jim Crow" Laws | required segregation in the South |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Women were allowed to vote |
| Lucretia Mott | a women's rights leader in the U.S. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | a women's rights leader in the U.S. |
| Andrew Carnegie | built America's largest steel company |
| John D. Rockefeller | built America's largest petroleum company |
| Cyrus McCormick | built the mechanical reaper, increasing crop production |
