Unit 6 Social Change

Socialist

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Socialist

person who supports community ownership of property and the sharing of all profits

Anti-Corn Law League

Richard Cobden and John Bright who formed it to help workers by lowering bread prices.

Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

Militant wing of the British woman suffrage movement. WSPU was founded in Manchester in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst. Along with the more conservative National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), founded in 1897, the WSPU sought votes for women in a country that had expressly denied women suffrage in 1832.

Conservatives

byname Tories, in the United Kingdom, a political party whose guiding principles include the promotion of private property and enterprise, the maintenance of a strong military, and the preservation of traditional cultural values and institutions.

Social Democratic Party

German Party in late 1870s that were committed to a Marxist critique of capitalism and cooperation with other socialist parties internationally. Bismark saw them as threat to stability of Germany and outlawed the party, although candidates stood for election. Socialist strength steadily grew.

British Labour Party

A "socialist" party in England formed by the liberals and the labor unions. They shaped the more liberal reforms in England, but were nothing close to being socialist.

Russian Social Democratic Party

revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed to unite various revolutionary organizations into one party; later split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions

Sunday School Movement

Earliest form of public education in Britain; began in an effort to teach children to read the Bible.

Temperance Movement

campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Abolitionist

A person who wanted to end slavery