History Vocabulary
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- working class
- people who work for wages such as factory workers
- Decaratin of The Right's o Man and of the Citizen
- a statement issued by the French National Assembly in Augut 1789 that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights"
- Latin America
- the cultural region including Mexico, the Caribbea, and South America that has been stronly infulenced by Spain and Portugal
- socialism
- an economic and political system based on collective or government wonership
- peasants
- a small farm owner or farm worker
- bureaucracy
- the large organizition hat runs the daily business of government
- Industrial Revolution
- a group of states or provines under a central governmenta rime whn great technological advnces changed the way goods were made and the ways people lived; it began in England in the 1700's and thenpread throughout Europe and the United States
- imperialis
- the extension of a nation's power over other lands by military political or economic means
- Reign of Terror
- the period 1793-1794 in revolutionary France when suspected traitors beheaded in great numbers
- estates
- the three social classes into which France was divided before the Frence Revolution including the clerg* te aristocracy and the common people
- absolute monarchy
- a form of government headed by a ruler, or monarchy,i unlimied power
- middle classes
- during the industrial revolution the new class of buisness people
- factory
- a building in which machines used to manufacture goods are located
- revolution
- the overthrow of an existing government and its relacement with another any sudden or very great change
- divine right
- the belief that a monarchy received authority to rule from Go* and therfore could notbe questioned
- confederation
- a group of states or provinces under a central government
- Meiji Restoration
- the overthrow of Japan's shogun in 1868 and resortation of power of the emperor Meiji
- aristocracy
- the class of a society made up of members of noble families usually the most powerful group
- textile
- a cloth fabric that is either woven or knitted
- mestizo
- a person of mixed Native American and Spainsh ancestors