1. An Age of Democracy and Progress 1815 - 1914
Chapter 26
An Age of Democracy and Progress

2. Industrial Revolution
The working and middle class, along with women want a voice in government.
More people becoming educated and have money. Mostly the middle class.
Industrial Revolution

3. 1600s (17th century) – Magna Carta and a constitutional monarchy
People no longer believed in divine right
Parliament consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons
House of Lords usually inherited their position. House of Commons the British people voted.
Voting was limited to men who owned a large amount of land – 5%
Britain Evolves

4. The Reform Bill of 1832 The middle class demanded respect and a vote
Upper middle class – factory owners, bankers, and merchants
Suffrage – the right to vote
The American and French Revolution scared leaders of Parliament
The Reform Bill of 1832

5. Lessened the property requirements and enabled wealthy MEN.
Redistricted the new industrial cities
^ This is called gerrymandering
Still only allowed a small percentage of the population to vote – diagram on pg 748
The Reform Bill of 1832

6. Wanted the vote for all people (MEN), a secret ballot, and new Parliament requirements
Nothing passed but by WWI, they received most everything
Put the idea in people’s heads
Chartist Movement

7. The Victorian Age Under Queen Victoria
Many democratic movements began and power shifted to Parliament
Wealth and power
How does this relate
to today?
The Victorian Age

8. Many people thought that women should not participate in politics, including women
Emmeline Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) – read Primary Source on pg 749
Christabel and Sylvia
WWI
Women’s Suffrage

9. France and the Third Republic
The Third Republic – France’s government and movement towards democracy
France and the Third Republic

10. Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism – negative prejudice against Jews
The Dreyfus Affair – army scandal accusing of a Jewish officer selling information to Germany
J’accuse! – a letter published by Emile Zola denouncing the French army for coving up the scandal
Anti-Semitism

11. Anti-Semitic feelings
Persecution of Jews in Russia
POGROMS – permitted organized campaigns of violence against Jews
Zionism – a movement that started in the late 19th century that wanted to form a Jewish state in Palestine to flee exile and persecution and live together
Israel was established in 1948.
Anti-Semitic feelings

13. “The Sun Never Sets on the English Empire”

14. Britain took control of Canada from the French after the French and Indian War in 1763
Many colonists moved there, but primarily French-speaking fur traders – Quebec
Lord Durham – was sent to investigate what needed to happen between the Roman Catholic French and the Protestant English in Canada – wanted to unite
Canada

15. He wanted a united Canada so that the French would assimilate to English culture
He also thought that they should govern themselves (Home Rule)
The dominion of Canada – self governing territory part of the British Empire
Read History in Depth on pg 752
Canada

16. Australia and New Zealand
James Cook claimed New Zealand and Australia in 1770 for GB
Maori – Polynesian natives from New Zealand
Aborigines – native people from Australia
Story pg 223
Australia and New Zealand

17. Britain's Penal Colony: Australia
Penal colony: place where convicts were sent to serve their sentence
After their release, freed convicts could buy land and settle
English settlers came when they found out it was good for sheep grazing and Gold Rush in 1851.
Video
Britain's Penal Colony: Australia

18. Although it was still under the British Empire, Britain recognized the Maori
The Maori accepted British rule in exchange for recognition of their land rights in 1840
New Zealand

19. Political reforms Australian Ballot in the 1850s
New Zealand gave full voting rights to women in 1893
Disease and tensions
Political reforms

20. Irish Home Rule 1829 – Catholic Emancipation Act and Daniel O’Connell
Read about the Irish potato famine on pg 754
Home rule- local control over internal matters only
Irish Home Rule

21. Ulster Northern Ireland
Britain afraid of invasion (like Scots) and afraid for Protestants.
Ulster

22. Ulster did not want Home Rule because they were Protestant
1914 – southern home rule only
WWI
Irish Republican Army (IRA) – unofficial military force seeking independence for Ireland – Read Connect to Today pg 755
Irish Home Rule

23. More Colonies 1834 – Britain opened China to trade
Opium Wars – wars with China over trading disputes
“The White Man’s Burden” on India and Africa
WS Reading
More Colonies

24. Africa Many colonies throughout Africa
South Africa and the Boers – South African of European descent
Boer War – war between the British and South Africans over land
Africa

25. The Union Jack

26. Switching Gears

27. Manifest Destiny From the Atlantic to the Pacific
This originally included Canada and some of Mexico
Manifest Destiny

28. Any Native Americans living in the east to move west – Oklahoma
The journey was called the Trail of Tears - 758
Indian Removal Act of 1830

29. Mexican-American War - 1848
“fifty-four forty or fight”
Added Texas
The Alamo – ten years earlier (1836)
Many important generals in the Civil War were officers during the M-A War
Mexican-American War

31. The Civil War

32. Words you must use for TOP TEN RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
Manifest Destiny
Indian Removal Act 1830
Trail of Tears
“fifty-four forty or fight” – “54’40 or fight!”
Abraham Lincoln
Secede
Emancipation Proclamation
Segregation
Words you must use for TOP TEN RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

33. Nineteenth Century Progress
Inventions – electricity, light bulb, telegraph, telephone, automobile, planes
You could get a Model T for about $500 in any color, as long as it was black
Nineteenth Century Progress

34. Line of workers who each put a single piece on unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt
Increase production, made it cheaper because it was faster
Paid his guys $5 a day, eventually they could buy their own
Roads needed to improve, Henry Ford
Video
Assembly Line

35. Heat killed bacteria
Pasteurization in milk
Louis Pasteur

36. Joseph Lister Antiseptics used in hospitals
This is where I think Listerine got their name
Joseph Lister

37. Naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Theory of Evolution – natural selection that the “Survival of the Fittest”
Charles Darwin

38. Radioactivity Founded by Marie Curie – A powerful form of energy
This is deadly
Radioactivity

39. The study of the human mind and behavior
Social Darwinism
Psychology

40. The appeal of art, writing, music, and other forms of entertainment to a larger audience
Movies, baseball, football, Olympics
“The Roaring Twenties”
Mass Culture