Revolutions Vocab

to formally approve or make legally binding an agreement or act that would not otherwise be binding

• Ratify
• Confirm
• Validate
• Approve

the first ten amendments to the US Constitution

• Declaration of Rights of Man

• Bill of Rights

• US Constitution

• Parliamentary laws

assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners

• Continental Congress

• Parliament

• Estates General

• Legislative Assembly

a social class of merchants, manufacturers, and professionals who gained financial power during the French Revolution but were excluded from political power

• peasantry
• aristocracy
• proletariat
• bourgeoisie

a group of people that creates, modifies, or repeals laws

• executive branch

• judiciary branch

• administrative assembly

• legislative assembly

an act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler.

• rebellion

• revolution

• guillotine

• exiled

A machine that beheads a person by dropping a heavy blade between two vertical guides

• axe
• sword
• scythe
• guillotine

a period of the French Revolution, from about March, 1793, to July, 1794, during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction.

• French Civil War
• Reign of Terror
• The Great Terror
• Napoleonic Era

to be forced to leave one's home or country, or to be living in a foreign country as a result

• exiled

• replacement

• migration
• relocation

the state of being free from the control of another person, country, or entity

• revolution

• nationalism

• independence

• protestantism