Modern World: Chapter 11

Britain was a constitutional monarchy in the early 1800s and which house in Parliament was set up by hereditary nobles and high-ranking clergy?

• House of Lords

• House of Commons

• House of Representatives

• House of Rich Brits

During the Industrial Revolution, millions of people were moving to the cities. You then had these large landowners in these depopulated rural areas still controlling the Parliament. These rural areas were known as...

• rotten boroughs

• rotten potatoes

• rotten townships

• rotten municipalities

Which political party represented the businessmen and the middle class looking for reform?

• Whig Party

• Tory Party

• Anglican Party

• Conservative Party

This act enlarged the electorate, got rid of the rotten boroughs, but did little to help the urban and rural workers

• The Great Reform Act of 1832

• The Reform Act of 1867

• The Reform Act of 1884

• The Reform Act of 1885

This term refers to a local self-government. *Hint: think of the Irish

• home rule

• secret ballot

• rotten boroughs

• coalition

This term refers to an alliance of different political parties.

• coalition

• home rule

• rotten boroughs

• tithing

This movement in Britain demanded the secret ballot however Parliament did not pass it for many years.

• Fabian

• Chartist

• Zionism

• Marxism

This man was a leader in the Irish nationalist movement but was more of a moderate nationalist...

• Charles Stewart Parnell

• Adam Smith

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Daniel O'Connell

Which prominent figure in Britain called women's suffrage a "mad, wicked folly."

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Queen Victoria

• Benjiman Disraeli

• Charles Edward Trevelyan

Which of the following was not included in the social welfare laws that protected workers

• accident health

• unemployment insurance

• old-age pensions

• repeal of the Corn Laws