Worksheets8-5 Vocabulary Warm Up
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
information campaign
an action taken by a group of employees who stop working in an attempt to pressure their employer into meeting their demands
to write down into law or to arrange a set of laws so they are grouped together and organized in an orderly fashion
a group that does not have a majority voice in the system
a marketing effort to build public recognition of a problem through media, messaging, and an organized set of communication tactics.
coalition
The temporary collaboration of two or more separate groups with a set goal and common purpose.
an action taken by a group of employees who stop working in an attempt to pressure their employer into meeting their demands
boycotts-to stop
a cooperative public statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to a policy, process, or situation, typically political in nature.
a group that has power because they make up 51 percent or more of the group
lobbying
to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest
a loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a political goal
communicating directly with a politician (usually lawmaker) to influence the laws or policies they make
changes and improvements to a law, social system or institution.
boycotts
to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest
formal changes made to the text of the Constitution changing or adding a right or government procedure
to write down into law or to arrange a set of laws so they are grouped together and organized in an orderly fashion
principle that states all people, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are public and equally enforced. No person is above the law.
amednements
principle that states all people, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are public and equally enforced. No person is above the law.
formal changes made to the text of the Constitution changing or adding a right or government procedure
the refusal to comply with certain laws or pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
a cooperative public statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to a policy, process, or situation, typically political in nature.
codify
a cooperative public statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to a policy, process, or situation, typically political in nature.
a marketing effort to build public recognition of a problem through media, messaging, and an organized set of communication tactics.
an action taken by a group of employees who stop working in an attempt to pressure their employer into meeting their demands
to write down into law or to arrange a set of laws so they are grouped together and organized in an orderly fashion
