chapter 17
Terms
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- estates
- Three large social classes
- meiji restoration
- The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism.
- aristocracy
- the most powerful members of a society
- mestizo
- a person of mixed racial ancestry of European and Native American
- Latin America
- the parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken
- industrial revolution
- the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
- bureaucracy
- nonelective government officials
- revolution
- the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
- confederation
- the act of forming an alliance or confederation
- socialism
- a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
- middle class
- the social class between the lower and upper classes
- peasants
- laborers of the Middle Ages
- factory
- big buildings built to hold the items that were to ig for someone's home
- decloration of the rights of the man and of the citizen
- demanded fair taxation and freedom of religion
- working class
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- textile
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- imperialism
- any instance of aggressive extension of authority
- divine right
- belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.
- absolute monarchy
- a monarchy in which the ruler's power is unlimited
- Reign of terror
- the historic period during the French Revolution when thousands were executed