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Chapter 29 Vocabulary
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Social Studies
9th Grade
03/05/2013

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suffrage
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The right to vote in political elections.
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Chartist movement
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Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the mid-19th century
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Queen Victoria
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Victoria: queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901).
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Third Republic
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The republican regime in France between the fall of Napoleon III in 1870 and the German occupation of 1940.
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Dreyfus affair
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The Dreyfus affair (affaire Dreyfus) was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the..
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anti-Semitism
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the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people.
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Zionism
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A movement for (originally) the reestablishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in Israel. It was establishe...
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dominion
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The territory of a sovereign or government: "the Angevin dominions".
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Maori
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A member of the aboriginal people of New Zealand.
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Aborigine
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A person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times.
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penal colony
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a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible).
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home rule
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The government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
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Irish Republican Army
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The military arm of Sinn Fein, aiming for union between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The IRA was formed during the...
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