Topic 5/6 Vocabulary: Nationalism, Democracy, and Imperialism

Reformers who wanted changes like universal male suffrage; the secret ballot; and payment for members of Parliament, so that even workingmen could afford to enter politics. This group supported a document called the People's Charter.

• Matthew Perry
• Dreyfus Affair
• Chartists
• Crimean War

a political scandal that caused deep divisions in France between Royalists and liberals and republicans; centered on the 1894 wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army

• Direct Rule
• Dreyfus Affair
• Realpolitik
• Manifest Destiny

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• John D. Rockefeller
• Simon Bolivar
• Emancipation
• nationalism

This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil that year; thousands more migrated to England and Europe to find work

• potato famine
• Andrew Carnegie
• Chartists
• Indirect Rule

American idea that the United States should stretch across the entire North American continent

• Manifest Destiny
• Realpolitik
• Matthew Perry
• Otto von Bismarck

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, meant to extend citizenship to African Americans after abolishing slavery

• Indirect Rule
• fourtheenth amendment
• Spheres of Influence
• nationalism

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

• Otto von Bismarck
• Proctorate
• balance of trade
• Andrew Carnegie

Was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.

• John D. Rockefeller
• Spheres of Influence
• Open Door Policy
• Manifest Destiny

domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

• Imperialism
• Proctorate
• balance of trade
• Direct Rule

war between Great Britain and China over restrictions to foreign trade

• annex
• Emancipation
• Opium War
• Indirect Rule