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| Imprisonment for this was abolished in the 1830s |
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| Queen of England from 1837 to 1901 |
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| Period of the English queen's reign |
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| Famine occurred in Ireland when this failed |
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| Members of the House of Commons finally earned this in 1911 |
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| Party that favored reforms in the 1820s |
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| New name of the Whig party |
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| New name of the Tory party |
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| Repeal of the Corn Laws allowed this to be imported free of tax |
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| Witty and shrewd Conservative party leader |
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| Formal, cautious Liberal party leader |
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| Reform demanded by the Irish |
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| New political party founded by Fabian socialists and union members |
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| Type of legislation passed by both Liberals and Conservatives in the 1800s |
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| social welfare legislation |
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| Election districts with little or no population |
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| Election districts controlled by nobles |
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| First law that made some voting reforms |
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| Group that proposed voting reforms in the 1830s and 1840s |
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| The Second Reform Bill gave the vote to these people. |
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| male city industrial workers |
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| The Third Reform Bill gave the vote to these people. |
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| male agricultural workers |
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| Act that ended the lords' power to veto tax and spending bills |
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| the Parliament Bill of 1911 |
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| Longest unfortified boundary between nations in the world |
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| the United States-Canada boundary |
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| What Britain used Australia for at first |
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| Australia is both of these, geographically speaking |
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| an island and a continent |
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| The original inhabitants of Australia |
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| The discovery of this brought a flood of immigrants to Australia |
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| Two major groups of settlers in Canada |
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| the French and the British |
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| This event resulted in the formation of the Yukon Territory. |
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| Huge area Canada bought from the Hudson's Bay Company |
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| Status of Canada after union |
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| Australian policy that restricted immigration |
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| the "White Australia" policy |
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| The six Australian states |
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| New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia,South Australia, Queensland, Victoria |
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| Native inhabitants of New Zealand |
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| First European country to discover Australia and New Zealand |
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| Englishman who rediscovered Australia and New Zealand |
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| Problem addressed by dividing Canada into two provinces in 1791 |
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| Opened in 1885, this linked eastern and western Canada. |
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| the Canadian Pacific (transcontinental) Railway |
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| Report that said the two Canadas should become one |
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| Law joining Upper and Lower Canada |
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| The British North America Act created this in Canada in 1867. |
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| Number of provinces in Canada by 1898 |
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| New Zealand was the first country to adopt this, in 1893 |
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| Two of the first three U.S. presidents |
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| Washington, Adams, Jefferson |
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| Where Native Americans were forced to resettle |
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| Flood of migrants to the West Coast in search of quick riches |
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| Settlers crossed this mountain range to reach the West Coast |
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| Nations that bordered the United States to the north and south |
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| Famous mission that was the site of a battle in the Mexican war |
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| Characteristic of U.S. government that provided stability |
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| power changing hands peacefully |
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| By the mid-1800s, almost all of these people could vote. |
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| Purchase of this area doubled the size of the United States. |
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| Southern state sold by Spain |
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| The United States wenr to war with this country in 1846. |
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| Country that sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States |
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| The United States gained this West Coast state (plus others) after the Mexican War. |
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| The Louisiana Territory stretched from this river to these mountains. |
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| the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains |
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| Southwestern territory that triggered the Mexican war |
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| Important city of Louisiana that came with the Purchase |
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| Two aspects of the United States that increased tremendously during the 1800s |
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| American settlers in Mexican territory set up this independent republic |
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| The United States gained this territory from Britain in 1846. |
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| Two of the three states formed from the Oregon territory |
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| Oregon, Washington, and Idaho |
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| Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 |
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| Economic base of the northern United States |
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| Economic base of the southern United States |
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| The largest single issue dividing the U.S. sections |
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| Leader of the North during the war |
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| The major military leader of the South |
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| Northern general who received the Confederate surrender |
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| The president's declaration that freed many slaves |
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| the Emancipation Proclamation |
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| The two major crops of the South |
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| People who wanted slavery to end everywhere in the United States |
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| To withdraw from the Union, as the Southern states did |
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| Political party that pledged to stop the spread of slavery |
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| Northern politican who went to the South after the Civil War |
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| the Confederate States of America |
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| President of the new southern nation |
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| The South's term for the Civil War |
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| the War Between the States |
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| The South lacked these two things it needed to supply its armies. |
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| Period when the seceded states were reestablished as part of the Union |
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| First state to withdraw from the Union |
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| The major North-South clash about slavery focused on this. |
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| the spread of slavery to the new territories |
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| European country that supported the South for its cotton |
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