Revolutions/Skills Vocabulary

Question 1

What you see

Answer 1

Observation

Question 2

An educated guess

Answer 2

Inference

Question 3

Your answer or opinion on a specific question or statement.

Answer 3

Claim

Question 4

The information or facts that support your claim. It helps to back up what you are saying and make your argument stronger.

Answer 4

Evidence

Question 5

The explanation of why your evidence supports your claim. It connects your evidence to your claim and shows how they are related.

Answer 5

Reasoning

Question 6

Actively reading the text by underlining important information, writing main ideas and questions in the margins, and circling unfamiliar words

Answer 6

Annotating

Question 7

Government in which a king holds all of the power

Answer 7

Absolute Monarchy

Question 8

Government in which people are voted to make decisions on the people’s behalf

Answer 8

Representative Government

Question 9

Government in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land

Answer 9

Democracy

Question 10

Time period in which scientists challenged old ways and created new academic subjects

Answer 10

Scientific Revolution

Question 11

European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.

Answer 11

Enlightenment

Question 12

Revolution that led to the overthrow of the King Louis XVI and the end of 1000 years of monarchy

Answer 12

French Revolution

Question 13

Leader of the Reign of Terror, a period in which anyone who “dissented” was executed

Answer 13

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 14

Leader of the Haitian Revolution

Answer 14

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Question 15

Revolution where Saint- Domingue won independence from France

Answer 15

Haitian Revolution

Question 16

Year in which Haiti won its independence

Answer 16

1804

Question 17

The last Czar of Russia

Answer 17

Nicholas II

Question 18

Revolution that led to the withdrawal of Russia from World War I

Answer 18

Russian Revolution

Question 19

Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, which came to power after the Russian Revolution

Answer 19

Vladimir Lenin

Question 20

Government in which all property is publicly owned and the goal is an “equal society”

Answer 20

Communism

Question 21

Communist nation formed after the Russian Revolution

Answer 21

Soviet Union (USSR)

Question 22

Dirty material that powered the Industrial Revolution

Answer 22

Coal

Question 23

The name of Sadie Pfeifer, whose photograph in a factory changed led to the people’s views of child labor

Answer 23

The Cotton Mill Girl

Question 24

Negatives: Overcrowding, pollution, and child labor

Positives: schooling, new inventions

Answer 24

Effects of the Industrial Revolution

Question 25

Country where the Industrial Revolution began

Answer 25

Great Britain