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chapter 23 and 24
reforms revolutions and war
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History
10th Grade
02/08/2010

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Queen Victoria
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became ruler of great britain. her reign was the longest in british history lasted until 1901
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Suffrage
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rights to vote
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Louis Philippe
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an aristocrat who was popular with the middle class
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Anti-Semitism
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prejudice toward jews in france
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Toissaint L' Ouverture
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a former enslaved african led a group of multattoes and slaves in a bloody revolt against the french settlers
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Miguel Hidalgo
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creole priest
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Jose de San Martin
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fighting for independence from spain in the south. San Martin was a soldier who had fought against Napoleon in Spain
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Monroe Doctrine
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Declared the americas off limits to further european colonization
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Abolition
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end of slavery
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Emancipation Proclamation
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lincoln declared all slaves free in some areas of the confederate states
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Victorian Era
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1837-1901

longest reign in british history

time of great change including voting reforms turned country democratic

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Emmeline Pankhurst
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founder of the womens social and political union
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Louis Napoleon
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led to second republic
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Theodor Herzl
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hungarian born jewish journalist who covered the trial
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Creoles
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people of european descent who were born in the colonies
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Jose Maria Morelos
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creole priest, he became the leader of the revolutionary movement in mexico after hidalgo's death
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Pedro I
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first emperor of brazil he declared Brasil's independence from Portugal where Pedro's father was king
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Manifest destiny
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a belief shared by many Americans in the mid 1800's that the United States should expand from the atlantic to the pacific oceans
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Abraham Lincoln
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16 president of the united states his election led to the secession of the southern states and the civil war
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Benjamin Disraeli
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British statesman as prime minister he oversaw the passage of key reforms including an extension of man suffrage
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Dreyfus Affair
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A political scandal that divided france in 1890's involving the wrong full conviction of jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus
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Zionism
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a jewish nationalist movement, begun in the 1890 to reedstablish a jewish state in its original homeland
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Peninsulares
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born on the Iberian Peninsula
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Simon Bolivar
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south american revolutionary who led independence wars in the present nations
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Louisiana Purchase
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the purchase on the land between the Mississipps river and the Rocky Moutains that nearly doubled the size of the United States
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Trail of Tears
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an 800 mile narch made by the cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to indian territory resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the cherokke people
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Secession
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the act of separating from
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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italian patriot, he formed the nationalist group called young italy to fight for the unification of the seperate italian states into one natioin
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Red Shirts
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army of volunteer troops led by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 they attacked the island of Sicily and won it for the italians
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Zollverein
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an economic alliance of most German states in 1834, aloweed for free trade among themselves and common tariffs on imports, exports, and transit
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Realpolitik
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the politics of reality the belief in pratical goals instead of theory in political philosophy
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Franz Joseph I
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emperor of Austria-Hungary from 1848 to 1916 during his long reign hhe took small steps to adress the democratic and nationalist aspirations of his people
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Crimean War
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war between the ottoman empire and russia, over access for eastern orthodox christians to the holy land, controlled by the ottomans, britain and france allied with the ottomans to check russian expansion
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Autocracy
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a government in which the ruler holds absolute power
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Pogroms
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the organized persecutions and massacres of jews in Russia in the 1800's
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Vladimir Lenin
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Russian revolutionary and founder of Bolshevism, the he rose to power in Russia  following the Russian Revolution of 1917
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Camillodi Cavour
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Italian statesman and premier of the kingdom of Sardinia, architect of the Halian unification movement in the late 1800's
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Victor Emmanuel
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King of Sardinia-Piedmon from 1849 to 1861 and king of Italy from 1861 to 1875 he was the first king of a united Italy
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Otto von Bismarck
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German statesman, he became leading force behind German unification.
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Austro-Prussian War
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war fought between Prussia and Austria lasting seven weeks; Prussian victory dissolved the German confederation and led to the exclusion of Austria from German affairs
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Magyars
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a hungarian ethnic group
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Balkan Wars
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two wars that cost the Ottoman Empire all of its European territories except the area around Constantinople
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Serfs
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peasants who were legally bound to there lords land
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Socialist Republic
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a type of republic in which there is no private property and the state owns and distributes all good to the people
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Bloody Sunday
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January 22, 1905 the day the czarist troops fired on protestors at the winter palace, igniting the Russin Revoluion of 1905
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Guiseppe Garibaldi
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italian military and nationalist leader he unified the southern states of Italy and joined them to the north to form the united kingdom of Italy
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Frederick Wilhelm IV
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king of prussia from 1840 to 1861 when revolution broke out in Prussia in 1848, he promised constitution and other reforms
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Wilhelm I
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King of Prussia from 1861 to 1888 and emperor of Germany from 1871 to 1888 he chose Otto von Bismarck at Prussian Prim minister and together they unified Germany
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Franco-Prussian War
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a war fought between france and prussia that ended in the defeat of france and the unification of Germany
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Dual Monarchy
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Austria-Hungary two seperate equal states ruled by one monarch
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Young Turks
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turkish reformist and nationalist political party active in the early 20th century
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Alexander II
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Czar of Russia from 1855 to 1851 he freed the Russian serfs and passed the other liberal reforms in Russia
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Russo-Japenses War
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1904-1905  which began with the navy attack on port Arthur, it was against Russia and Japan
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Duma
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elected legislative body that, along with the State Council, constituted the imperial Russian legislature from 1906 until its dissolution at the time of the March 1917 Revolution
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