Chapter 17
Terms
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- Latin America
- The cultural regon including Mexico, The Caribian and South America that has been enfluenced by Spain and Portugal.
- Industrial Revolution
- A tme when great technological advantages changed the way poeple lived.
- Reign of Terror
- the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were beheaded because of false accusations.
- Imperialism
- The existance of a nation's power over other lands.
- Socialism
- An Schonomic and political sytem based on collective and government ownership.
- Working Class
- A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages.
- Estates
- Three large social classes which France was divided into befor the Revoluion.
- Meiji Restoration
- The overthrow of Jaan's shogun
- Mestizo
- A person of mixed spanish and native american descent.
- Peasant
- Small farm owner or farm worker.
- Divine Right
- The belief that a Monarch receved athority to rule from G**; power that should not be quetioned.
- Confederation
- A group of states or proidences under a central government.
- Aristocracy
- Highest class of society; the nobility.
- Absolute Monarcy
- A form of government heaed by a ruller with ultimate power.
- Middle Class
- During the Industrial Revolution: the new class of buissness people.
- Revolution
- The overthrow of an existing government that is replaced by another.
- Declarion of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- A statement issued by the French national asembly that ment "all men were born free".
- Textile
- A cloth like fabric that was either woven knitted.