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Jeopardy 27
Conflict and Democracy in the English-Speaking World
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History
10th Grade
04/03/2007

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Chief reform concern of the middle class and workers
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voting reform
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Imprisonment for this was abolished in the 1830s
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debt
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Queen of England from 1837 to 1901
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Queen Victoria
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Period of the English queen's reign
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the Victorian Era
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Famine occurred in Ireland when this failed
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the potato crop
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Members of the House of Commons finally earned this in 1911
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a salary
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Party that favored reforms in the 1820s
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the Whig Party
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New name of the Whig party
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the Liberal Party
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New name of the Tory party
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the Conservative Party
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Repeal of the Corn Laws allowed this to be imported free of tax
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grain
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Witty and shrewd Conservative party leader
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Formal, cautious Liberal party leader
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William Gladstone
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Reform demanded by the Irish
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home rule
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New political party founded by Fabian socialists and union members
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the British Labour party
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Type of legislation passed by both Liberals and Conservatives in the 1800s
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social welfare legislation
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Election districts with little or no population
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rotten boroughs
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Election districts controlled by nobles
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pocket boroughs
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First law that made some voting reforms
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the Reform Bill of 1832
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Group that proposed voting reforms in the 1830s and 1840s
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the Chartists
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The Second Reform Bill gave the vote to these people.
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male city industrial workers
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The Third Reform Bill gave the vote to these people.
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male agricultural workers
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Act that ended the lords' power to veto tax and spending bills
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the Parliament Bill of 1911
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Longest unfortified boundary between nations in the world
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the United States-Canada boundary
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What Britain used Australia for at first
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a penal colony
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Australia is both of these, geographically speaking
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an island and a continent
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The original inhabitants of Australia
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the Aborigines
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The discovery of this brought a flood of immigrants to Australia
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gold
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Two major groups of settlers in Canada
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the French and the British
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This event resulted in the formation of the Yukon Territory.
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the Klondike Gold Rush
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Huge area Canada bought from the Hudson's Bay Company
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the Northwest Territory
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Status of Canada after union
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a dominion
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Australian policy that restricted immigration
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the "White Australia" policy
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The six Australian states
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New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia,South Australia, Queensland, Victoria
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Native inhabitants of New Zealand
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the Maori
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First European country to discover Australia and New Zealand
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the Netherlands
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Englishman who rediscovered Australia and New Zealand
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Captain James Cook
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Problem addressed by dividing Canada into two provinces in 1791
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ethnic tension
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Opened in 1885, this linked eastern and western Canada.
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the Canadian Pacific (transcontinental) Railway
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Report that said the two Canadas should become one
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the Durham Report
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Law joining Upper and Lower Canada
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the Act of Union
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The British North America Act created this in Canada in 1867.
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a federal union
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Number of provinces in Canada by 1898
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nine
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New Zealand was the first country to adopt this, in 1893
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woman suffrage
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Two of the first three U.S. presidents
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Washington, Adams, Jefferson
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Where Native Americans were forced to resettle
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reservations
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Flood of migrants to the West Coast in search of quick riches
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the Gold Rush
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Settlers crossed this mountain range to reach the West Coast
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the Rockies
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Nations that bordered the United States to the north and south
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Canada and Mexico
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Famous mission that was the site of a battle in the Mexican war
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the Alamo
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Characteristic of U.S. government that provided stability
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power changing hands peacefully
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By the mid-1800s, almost all of these people could vote.
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adult white males
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Purchase of this area doubled the size of the United States.
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the Louisiana Territory
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Southern state sold by Spain
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Florida
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The United States wenr to war with this country in 1846.
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Mexico
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Country that sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States
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France
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The United States gained this West Coast state (plus others) after the Mexican War.
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California
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The Louisiana Territory stretched from this river to these mountains.
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the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains
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Southwestern territory that triggered the Mexican war
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Texas
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Important city of Louisiana that came with the Purchase
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New Orleans
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Two aspects of the United States that increased tremendously during the 1800s
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territory and population
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American settlers in Mexican territory set up this independent republic
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the Republic of Texas
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The United States gained this territory from Britain in 1846.
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the Oregon Country
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Two of the three states formed from the Oregon territory
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Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
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Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853
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the Gadsden Purchase
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Economic base of the northern United States
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industry
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Economic base of the southern United States
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agriculture
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Large southern farms
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plantations
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The largest single issue dividing the U.S. sections
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slavery
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Leader of the North during the war
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Abraham Lincoln
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The major military leader of the South
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Robert E. Lee
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Northern general who received the Confederate surrender
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The president's declaration that freed many slaves
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the Emancipation Proclamation
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The two major crops of the South
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cotton and tobacco
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People who wanted slavery to end everywhere in the United States
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abolitionists
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To withdraw from the Union, as the Southern states did
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to secede
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Political party that pledged to stop the spread of slavery
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the Republican Party
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Northern politican who went to the South after the Civil War
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carpetbaggers
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The new southern nation
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the Confederate States of America
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President of the new southern nation
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Jefferson Davis
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The South's term for the Civil War
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the War Between the States
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The South lacked these two things it needed to supply its armies.
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industry and railroads
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Period when the seceded states were reestablished as part of the Union
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Reconstruction
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First state to withdraw from the Union
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South Carolina
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The major North-South clash about slavery focused on this.
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the spread of slavery to the new territories
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European country that supported the South for its cotton
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Great Britain
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