Revolutions Vocabulary Part 1

Political or social change

• revolution

• Parliament

• Declaration

• Confederation

An area of land controlled by another nation

• colony

• empire

• militia

• convention

A required payment to a government

• tax

• repeal

• deposit

• refund

To cancel an act or law

• repeal

• overrule

• tyrant

• rebellion

Parliament

• the lawmaking body of British government

• A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.

• a volunteer army made up of civilians

A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.

• Constitutional Monarch

• Democratic Monarch

• Absolute Monarch

A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people

• Absolute Monarch

• Constitutional Monarch

A person or group acting on behalf of another person or group

• representation

• Parliament

• democratic

• convention

A cruel and oppressive ruler

• Tyrant

• Rebellion

• Parliament

• Utopian

Intolerable

• unable to be endured; unbearable

• to cancel an act or law

• political or social change

• a written plan of government