| A | B |
|---|
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Queen Victoria | Leader of Britain when democratic changes were occurring |
| Chartist movement | movement in England to give the right to vote to more people and to obtain other rights |
| Third Republic | Government formed in France after Napoleon II was exiled |
| Dreyfus affair | events surrounding the framing of a Jewish officer in the Frencharmy |
| anti-semitism | Prejudice against Jews |
| Zionism | movement to establish a separate homeland in Palestine for the Jews |
| dominion | nation in the British Empire allowed to govern its own domestic affairs |
| Maori | Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand |
| Aborigine | Native people of Australia |
| penal colony | place where convicts are sent to serve their sentences as an alternative to prison |
| home rule | local control over domestic affairs |
| Irish Republican Army | Unofficial military force seeking independence |
| manifest destiny | belief that the United States would rule the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States |
| secede | to leave the nation |
| U.S. Civil War | war fought between the North and South from 1861-1865 |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 proclamation to free the slaves in the confederate states |
| segregation | separation by race |
| assembly line | arrangement by which a product in a factory is moved from worker to worker, with each worker completing a single step in the task |
| Charles Darwin | Scientist who developed the theory of evolution |
| theory of evolution | that all life on earth developed from simpler forms of life |
| radioactivity | form of energy released as atoms decay |
| psychology | study of the mind |
| mass culture | art and entertainment appealing to a large audience |
