Timeline for the Age of Democracy and Progress

By alaina_sarullo

  • Reform Bill of 1832

    A bill in Parliament that would extend the right to vote. It eased the property requirements so that men in the middle class could vote. It also modernized the districts for electing members of Parliament and gave the the new industrialized cities more representation.

  • Chartist Movement

    A movement that arose among the workers and other groups who still could not vote to press for more rights. It urged Parliament to adopt three great petitions.

  • Suffrage for working class men

    Working class men got the right to vote

  • Suffrage for male rural workers

    Male rural workers get the right to vote

  • Rise of Zionism

    A movement to reestablish Jewish homeland

  • The Dreyfus Affair

    A controversy where captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, was accused of selling military secrets to Germany

  • Suffrage for women over the age of 30

    Woman over the age of 30 got the right to vote

  • Suffrage for all women of voting age

    All woman of voting age got the right to vote