8-5 Vocabulary Warm Up

Minority

• The smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number.

• The greater number.

• Express an objection to what someone has done or said.

• Make changes in something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice, in order to improve it.

Majority

• The smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number.

• The greater number.

• Express an objection to what someone has said or done.

• Make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

Protest

• The smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number.

• The greater number.

• Express an objection to what someone has said or done.

• Make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

Reform

• The smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number.

• The greater number.

• Express an objection to what someone has said or done.

• Make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

Civil Disobedience

• Refusing to obey a law, a regulation or a power judged unjust in a peaceful manner.

• political philosophy that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.

• Having most appeal or influence; prevalent.

• Arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.

Rule of Law

• refusing to obey a law, a regulation or a power judged unjust in a peaceful manner.

• political philosophy that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.

• • having most appeal or influence; prevalent.

• Arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.

Social Movement

• The greater number.

• make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

• a loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal,

• collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values.

Codify

• having most appeal or influence; prevalent.

• arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.

• a loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal,

• collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values.

Political Movement

• collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values.

• a loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal,

• refusing to obey a law, a regulation or a power judged unjust in a peaceful manner.

• • express an objection to what someone has said or done.

Litigation

• an action taken by a group of employees who stop working in an attempt to pressure their employer into meeting their demands

• The process of taking legal action

• a marketing effort to build public recognition of a problem through media, messaging, and an organized set of communication tactics. 

• communicating directly with a politician (usually lawmaker) to influence the laws or policies they make