1. Chapter 23 The Growth of Western Democracies

2. Section 1: Democratic Reform in Britain
Britain was a Constitutional Monarchy
Reform Act of 1832 – Redistributes seats of Parliament
Gives common people more representation
Secret Ballot Act – anonymity in voting
Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone form the Conservative and Liberal Parties
Each push for further reforms
Establishment of a Parliamentary Democracy

3. Section 2: Social and Economic Reform in Britain
Abolition Movement brings and end to the slave trade
Reduction in the amount of Capital Offenses
Labor Unions help to improve working conditions
Women gain the right to vote (30 years old)
Britain grants Ireland independence in 1921

4. Section 3: Division and Democracy in France
Napoleon III and the Second Empire
Franco-Prussian War – Napoleon III captured and executed
Formation of the Third Republic – push towards Democracy
Two Parliament House
Anti-Semitism – Dreyfus Affair
Zionist Movement – Formation of a Jewish State

5. Section 4: Expansion of the United States
Belief of Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase, Oregon Country, Florida Cession, Alaska Purchase
Civil War divides a nation
Women’s Suffrage movement