1. An Age of Democracy and Progress, 1815-1914
Chapter 10

2. Democratic Reform and Activism
Section 1

3. Connection
Urbanization and industrialization lead to problems like ______________
People demand reforms -> improve conditions for workers and poor
Many begin calling for political reforms
Overcrowding, wealthy factory owners, bad living conditions

4. Britain’s Reforms
Protests lead to British Parliament passing the Reform Bill of > extending suffrage (the right to vote) to the upper middle class
Chartists Movement – protests demanding suffrage for all men, pay members of Parliament, and a secret ballot
1884 – nearly all men in Britain can vote

5. Women Women gain the right to vote in 1919 (U.S. and G. Britain)
Hunger Strikes

6. Revolutionaries wanted the power of ______________ to be limited.
A main goal of the French Revolution, Glorious Revolution of England, and the American Revolution was _____________.
Revolutionaries wanted the power of ______________ to be limited.
Individual and political rights are now being fought for by ___________________.
Political rights and freedoms, limit the power of the church and landowners, women and the Chartists in Britain

7. France and Democracy
One word to describe France up to this point would be __________________
A republic is a _____________ democracy
Third Republic ( ) – France has a republic but monarchists, aristocrats, clergy, and army leaders do not want it
To gain more support they scare people
Use anti-Semitism (prejudice towards Jews) to make the govt. look weak
Frame Alfred Dreyfus, Jewish officer

8. Instructions Read primary source and answer questions 1-3
Look up when you are done

9. Alfred Dreyfus
What happened to Dreyfus during the degradation (humiliation) ceremony?
How did Dreyfus react?
Do you think Dreyfus was able to convince the crowd of his innocence? Give specific reasons to support your answer?
Why was he framed?
How did overturning the decision strengthen the fight for individual liberty (freedom)?
Why does Zionism develop? How does it affect Jewish emigration? (page. 316)
Sword broken in 2, symbols of military rank torn from trousers
He proclaimed his innocence
No, court found him guilty of treason
Anti-Semitism used by army officers to make people scared of Jewish spies and make the democratic govt. look weak
A more fair court of law, justice
Jews being mistreated, pogroms, leads to creation of Israel and immigration

10. Section 2
Self-Rule for British Colonies

11. Canada France loses Canada after the French and Indian War
Immigration increases from Britain
Dominion = Canada is self-governing domestically (in Canada) but remains a part of the British Empire

12. Australia British sea captain (James Cook)claims it in 1770
Penal colony – British prisoners are sent there -> Why?
Govt. offers cheap land to encourage migration

13. New Zealand
1840 Maori accept British rule -> British recognize their land rights

14. Australia and N. Zealand become British dominions
Native peoples are killed, kicked off land, or die from disease
N. Zealand = 1893 first country to give voting rights to women (white)

15. Ireland Pope grants control of Ireland to English king in 1100s
English limit the rights of Catholics
Great Famine = potato fungus -> a million die and 1.5 million leave

17. Ireland Some Irish want home rule = local control
1921 – Britain divides Ireland (North = part of Britain and South = dominion)
Irish Republican Army (IRA) – want independence -> attack British officials in Ireland
1949 – Northern Ireland controlled by G. Britain -> Ireland = independent

18. __________________ was a dominion of Great Britain which meant it could ____________.
The Great ____________ affected the Irish population because _________________.

19. How would Irish and American history have been different had the famine never occurred?
1. Relations between Irish and British might have been better, fewer people would have immigrated thus affecting urbanization + labor force politics, and the growth of Catholicism in the U.S.

20. War and Expansion in the U.S.
Section 3

21. Americans Move West

22. Manifest Destiny

23. Manifest Destiny
Indian Removal Act

24. Manifest Destiny
Indian Removal Act

26. War with Mexico - Texas

27. War with Mexico

28. Civil War
Southern economy
relies on cotton

29. Civil War
Stop the spread of slavery

30. Civil War

31. Emancipation Proclamation

32. Reconstruction

33. Postwar Economy

34. 19th Century Progress
Section 4

35. Inventions

36. Inventions
Henry Ford – assembly line -> cars

37. Medicine Germ theory Louis Pasteur
Germs, bacteria, can be killed by heat
Cleanliness helps prevent the spread of disease
Hospitals – cleaner
vaccines

38. Science Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Population grows faster than food supply
Competition for food
Species that are the fittest survive
Over time species may change

39. Social Science Psychology – the study of the human mind
Freud – the unconscious mind (memories and desires) drives how people think and act

40. Mass Culture
Most people could not experience art, writing, music, entertainment