Revolutions Vocabulary 1

Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principals in another territory

• Colonialism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

• Imperialsim

Law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

Law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• Patriotism

• Imperialism

• Rebellion

• Nationalism

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically

• Enlightenment

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• Nation

A politically organized body of people under a single government

• Nation

• Social Division

• Revolution

• State

People of wealth and power

• nation

• peasants

• elite

• bourgeoisie

A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger

• nation

• crisis

• revolution

• rebellion

People who worked the land or served the nobles

• Nobles

• peasants

• rebellion

• enlightenment

Someone who disagrees

• enlightenment

• dissident

• nation

• rebellion