An Age of Democracy and Progress, 1815-1914

  • Reform Bill of 1832

    The first group to demand a greater voice in politics was the wealthy middle class-- factory owners, bankers and merchants.
  • The People's Charter of 1838

    The people Charter called or suffarage for all men and annual Parliamentary elections. It also proposed to reform Parliament in other ways.
  • Suffrage for male rural workers

    These men has the right to vote.
  • The Dreyfus Affair

    was a political scandal that from its beginning in 1894 divided France until it was finally resolved in 1906.
  • Suffrage for women over the age of 30

    the women couldnt vote becasue thye was over the age of 30
  • Suffrage for all women of voting age

    is the right of women to vote.
  • Rise of Zionism

    is a nationalist and political movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Palestine, Canaan or the Holy Land)
  • Suffrage for working class men

    These men had to work for them to vote.