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electorate
The body of people allowed to vote.
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Napoleon III
Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great Reform Act
Large towns and cities in Great Britain were able to send more representatives to Parliament as a result of
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Farmers and wealthy landowners
Who supported British corn laws?
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Duma
Elected national legislature
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Abolition Movement
The campaign against slavery and the slave trade.
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Queen Victoria
She exercised little real political power, but set the tone for ideals such as duty, thrift, honesty, hard work, and above all respectability
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Austria-Hungary
The Dual Monarchy combined
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capital offenses
Crimes punishable by death
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anarchist
People who wanted to abolish all government
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Zionism
A movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in Palestine.
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Francis Joseph
18 year-old who inherited the Hapsburg throne
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republic
When Italy unified, what type of government did it take
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Industrialists and scientists
These two groups worked together to make products such as synthetic dyes
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Dreyfus affair
A high-ranking military officer was accused of spying for Germany. This scandal became known as...
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pogroms
Violent mob attacks on Jewish people
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Ferenc Deak
A moderate Hungarian leader who helped work out a compromise that created a new political power known as the Dual Monarchy
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the needs of the state
Bismarck's political actions were guided by
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He wanted no rivals and believed his right to rule came from God.
Why did William II ask Otto von Bismarck to resign?
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4 months
How long did the Siege of Paris last?
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Zemstvo
A form of local government that was instituted during the great liberal reforms in Imperial Russia
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
A longtime nationalist who wanted to create an Italian republic. Recruited a force of 1,000 red-shirted volunteers.
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Suppressed the culture sod non-Russian peoples within the empire
Alexander III launched a program of Russification which...
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Zollverein
Prussian economic union
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Otto von Bismarck
Used policy of "blood and iron"
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