1. End of the 1800s

2. Reform Bill of 1832 Middle Class gets right to vote!

3. The Victorian Age 64 years of rule Greatest height and wealth Prim and proper

4. Women’s Suffrage Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emmeline Pankhurst formed Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strikes

5. Dreyfus Affair Accused of selling military secrets Solidified strengthen of anti- semitism Zionism Persecution of Jews Jews had desire for separate homeland

6. Self Rule- Canada French and English Canada Dominion- self- governing in domestic affairs but part of British Empire Westward Expansion John MacDonald (first PM) expanded westward 1871- reached Pacific 1885- Transcontinental RR

7. Self Rule- Australia & New Zealand Aborigines and Maoris Penal Colonies Dominions Secret ballot- first used in Australia 1893- New Zealand gave women right to vote

8. Self Rule- Ireland 1100s- Pope gave control of Ireland to English king 1500s- limited rights of Catholics Irish hated British rule 1801- Ireland official part of Britain 1840s- Irish Potato Famine 1.5 Million fled Ireland 1921- Ireland granted home rule

9. American Expansion War with Mexico 1821- Mexican independence 1836- Texas revolts against Mexican rule 1845- US annexed Texas Manifest Destiny Impact on Native Americans and Slavery

10. American Civil War North vs. South Climax of conflict- 1860 election of Abe Lincoln Cause of the Civil War Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 13 th, 14 th, and 15 th Amendments Segregation

11. America- Postwar Economy By 1914- US leading industrial power in the world Immigration In 1870s, nearly 2,000/day By 1914- more than 20 million people from Asia and Europe Railroads 1862- construction of transcontinental RR By 1900- nearly 200,000 miles of track

12. 19 th Century Progress Early 1800s- steam Late 1800s- gasoline and electric Thomas Edison- light bulb/ phonograph

13. 19 th Century Progress Alexander Graham Bell- Telephone Guglielino Marconi- First Radio

14. 19 th Century Progress Henry Ford- Model T and assembly line

15. 19 th Century Progress Wright Brothers December 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, NC First airplane Longest flight 59 seconds

16. Rise of Mass Culture Earlier periods- art, music and master theater for wealthy By 1900s- much larger audience because of leisure time Causes to rise Increase in literacy Improvements in communication to meet broad demand Phonographs brought it into homes

17. Rise of Mass Culture Earliest motion pictures- black and white, lasting less than 1 minute By early 1900s, filmmakers produced first feature films Movies quickly became big business By 1910, 5 million Americans attended ~10,000 theaters each day

18. Rise of Mass Culture Development of Sporting Events In US- football and baseball In Europe- professional soccer Favorite English sports (cricket) spread to British colonies (Australia, India and South Africa) In 1896- International Olympic Games

19. New Ideas in Medicine & Science Louis Pasteur- pastuerization

20. New Ideas in Medicine & Science Charles Darwin 1859- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Stimulated debate inside and outside the world of science

21. New Ideas in Medicine & Science Gregor Mendel- genetics Austrian monk in 1850/1860s Discovered that certain traits were inherited Later scientists discovered genes

22. New Ideas in Medicine & Science John Dalton- British chemist Atoms Dmitri Mendeleev- Russian chemist Periodic table

23. New Ideas in Medicine & Science Marie and Pierre Curie Discovered Radium and polonium (both highly radioactive) 1903- Curies shared Nobel Prize in physics 1911- Marie won Nobel prize in chemistry

24. The Social Sciences Ivan Pavlov Classical conditioning

25. The Social Sciences Sigmund Freud Unconscious drives the mind Id, Ego, Super Ego Oedipus complex Psychosexual stages Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genetal