| A | B |
|---|
| Constitutional Monarchy | King and/or Queen rule under the guidelines of a constitution. |
| Rotten Boroughs | Old rural towns with few people that held more power in Parliament than they represented. |
| House of Lords | .5 of Parliament, hereditary nobles and high-ranking clergy. |
| House of Commons | .5 of Parliament, elected representatives. |
| Reform Bill of 1832 | Redistributed seats in the House of Commons, ended rotten boroughs, gave suffrage to men with some property. |
| Chartism | Movement that called for universal male suffrage, secret ballot, annual parliamentary elections, and salaries for members of Parliament. |
| The People's Charter | Petition that demanded universal male suffrage, secret ballot, annual parliamentary elections, and salaries for members of Parliament. |
| Victorian ideals | duty, thrift, honesty, hard work, respectability. |
| Abolition Movement | Call for the end of slavery. |
| Labor Union Goals | Shorter work hours, better pay, limited child labor, and safer working conditions |
| Fabian Society | Group urged gradual change through legal means, not violence. |
| Suffragist | Men and women who worked for women to get the vote. |
| home rule | Local self-government for Ireland |
| The great hunger | The potato blight of 1845 destroyed the potato crop starving Irish farmers. |
