1. An Age of Democracy & Progress
Chapter 26
World history

2. Democratic Reform & Activism
Upper classes ran British government with wealthy landowners in control.
suffrage – right to vote
Reform Bill of 1832 – eased property requirements so more middle class citizens could vote
Only a small class of men could still vote
Chartist movement – workers and other non-voters who pushed for suffrage over a period of many years
Queen Victoria – 18 in 1837 and ruled for 64 years – she was popular and Britain reached the height of it’s empire

3. Democratic Reform & Activism

4. Democratic Reform & Activism
Women become militant in protests, are arrested and force fed when they go on hunger strikes
Emmeline Pankhurst and daughters were leaders in women’s suffrage movement
Women get right to vote after WWI

5. Democratic Reform & Activism
France, Democracy and anti-Semitism
France had a change of govt. yearly
Third Republic – lasted 60 years, but many divisions
Dreyfus Affair – Jewish army officer framed and sent to jail. Truth was covered up for a few years until he was exonerated
Anti-Semitism – prejudice against Jews
pogroms – organized campaigns of violence against Jews
Russia and other countries many Jews to leave and many came to America (100s killed, raped, 100s of towns)
Long history of exile and persecution convinced Jews to work for a homeland in Palestine
Zionism – movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland in Israel

6. Democratic reform & Activism

7. Self rule for british colonies
British had trading colonies around the world by 1800
Sun never set on the British empire
Canada had native population, French, British, and British sympathizers from the Revolutionary War
Upper (Ontario) and Lower (Quebec) were formed with separate governments
Durham Report – Upper and Lower Canada should unite and govern themselves
dominion – self-governing, but part of another country
Canada expands to the pacific by 1871 and builds a transcontinental RR by 1885

8. Self rule for british colonies
Australia & New Zealand
James Cook claims both for Britain
Maori – Polynesian people who settled NZ in A.D. 800
Aborigines- native people of Australia – longest ongoing culture in the world
penal colony – where people went to serve jail terms to avoid overcrowded prisons
Free settlers arrive in Australia
Britain recognized Maori and NZ was settled slowly with missionaries arriving 1st
AUS 1st with secret ballot, NZ 1st for women to vote in 1893
Disease killed many natives and land was taken from both tribes while aborigines were killed

9. Self rule for british colonies

10. Self rule for british colonies

11. Self rule for british colonies
Irish
English move into Ireland in 1100 and Irish resent English
Irish Catholics fight with English Protestants through today.
potato famine, 1 million out of 8 dies and 1.5 million leave
home rule – local control over internal matters only
British don’t want to abandon Irish Protestants
IRA – Irish Republican Army – fought for Irish independence
Northern Ireland is still part of Great Britain

12. Self rule for british colonies

13. Self rule for british colonies

14. War and expansion in the United States

15. War and expansion in the United States
manifest destiny – the U.S. had a right and a duty to rule North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans
Indian Removal Act of 1830 – forces Indians west
Cherokees – Trail of Tears – 800 miles from GA to OK, 25% die
1836 Texas gains independence and is annexed in 1845 by the U.S.
Mexico still claimed Texas and considers annexation an act of war
1846 to 1848 war gives Mexican cession including CA
1853 – Gadsden Purchase

16. War and expansion in the United States

17. War and expansion in the United States
secede – withdraw from Union
U.S. Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation – 1863 – declared all slaves in Confederacy free
Reconstruction – Union troops occupied the South and enforced constitutional protections
segregation – separation of blacks and whites in the South
Industrialization expands after the war as U.S. is world’s leading producer by 1914
1870s – 2,000 immigrants a day, 20 million by 1914
1869 transcontinental railroad was completed
1900 – 200,000 miles of track

18. Nineteenth century progress
Inventions
Gasoline
Electric generator
Thomas Edison – 1,000 patents, light bulb & phonograph
Alexander Graham Bell – telephone
Gugliemo Marconi – radio & Morse Code
Henry Ford – affordable, standardized, interchangeable cars
assembly line – line of workers who each put a single piece on a car
Wright Brothers – 1903 gas powered flight at Kitty Hawk, NC

19. Nineteenth century progress

20. Nineteenth century progress
Inventions
Louis Pasteur – pasteurization – heat to kill bacteria
Joseph Lister – anti-septics or germ killing liquids
Plumbing and sewer systems
Vaccines – typhus, typhoid fever, diptheria and yellow fever
Charles Darwin – Theory of Evolution – forms of life evolve from existing forms of life
Gregor Mendel – monk – genetics
John Dalton – all matter made of tiny particles
Dmitri Mendeleev – Russian – Periodic Table
Marie and Pierre Curie – radioactivity
Ernest Rutherford, Max Planck, Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein – structure and energy of atoms

21. Nineteenth century progress

22. Nineteenth century progress
Inventions
Social sciences – archaeology, anthropology, sociology and psychology – the study of behavior
Sigmund Freud – psychoanalysis
Mass culture – the appeal of art, writing, music, and other forms of entertainment to a larger audience
Leisure activities – music performances, movies, sporting events, singing, dancing, juggling, comedians, acrobats, & magicians