Revolutions Vocab Review

Persecute

• To treat a group of people cruelly or unfairly

• The middle class in France

• A government whose powers are restricted through laws or a constitution

• To protest by refusing to do something

Constitution

• Basic laws of a state that define the role of government

• The increase in the proportion of people living in cities rather than rural areas

• An organization of those employed who work together to improve wages and working conditions.

• A type of company that sells shares in the company to investors

Boycott

• To protest by refusing to do something

• An economic system where machines do work that was once performed by animals or humans

• A government whose powers are restricted through laws or a constitution

• The idea that government is created by the people and must act according to people’s wishes

Popular Sovereignty

• The idea that government is created by the people and must act according to people’s wishes

• A social class in France before the French Revolution
  

• The middle class in France

• A change of government in which a new group of leaders seize power by force

Limited Government

• A government whose powers are restricted through laws or a constitution

• The increase in the proportion of people living in cities rather than rural areas

• The working class

• An economic system where machines do work that was once performed by animals or humans

Industrialism

• An economic system where machines do work that was once performed by animals or humans

• A change of government in which a new group of leaders seize power by force

• The increase in the proportion of people living in cities rather than rural areas

• An organization of those employed who work together to improve wages and working conditions.

A type of company that sells shares in the company to investors

• Corporation

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

• Constitution

A social class in France before the French Revolution

• Estate

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

• Coup d’etat

The middle class in France

• Bourgeoisie

• Estate

• Coup d’etat

• Proletariat

A change of government in which a new group of leaders seize power by force

• Coup d’etat

• Urbanization

• Industrialism

• Boycott