Lessn 17
Terms
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- Declar ation of the rights of man and of the citizen
- a statement issued by the French Natio9nal Assembly in August 1789 that all men were born and remain free and equal in right
- Confederation
- a group of states or provinces under a central government
- Aristocracy
- The class of a society made up of members of noble families, usually the most powerful group
- working class
- people who work for wages, such as factory workers
- middle class
- during the Industrial Revolution, the new class of business people
- Meji Restoration
- the overthrow of Japan's shogun in 1868 and restoration of power to the emperor
- Estates
- The three social classes into which France was divided before the French Revolution. including the clergy, the aristocracy, and the common people
- Mestizo
- a person of mixed native american and spainish ancestory
- Latin America
- the cultural region including Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America that has been strongly influenced by Spainish and Portugal
- Divine Right
- The belief that a monarch received authority to rule from G-o-D and therefore could not be questioned
- textile
- a cloth of fabric that is either woven or knitted
- Industrial Revolution
- a period of time when great technological advances cyhanged the way goods were made and the ways people lived
- imperialism
- the extension of a nation's power over lands by military, polical, or economic means
- socialism
- an interest of ideas that people in Europe were interested in
- bureaucracy
- the large organization that runs daily business of governemt
- factory
- large buildings
- Absolute Monarchy
- A form of goverment headed by a ruler; or monarch, with unlimited power
- Reign of terror
- The period 1793-1794 in revolutionary France when suspected traitors were beheaded in great numbers
- Revolution
- The overthrow of an existing government and its replacement with another; any sudden or very great change
- Peasants
- A small farm owner or farm worker