Match the terms to their definition.

1. bourgeoisie voting rights

2. Creole a person of mixed European and indigenous descent

3. manumission a person of mixed European and African descent

4. mestizo the practice of emancipating slaves

5. mulatto the middle class

6. proletariat a person of European ancestry who was born in the Americas

7. sepoys Indian troops

8. suffrage the working class

9. zaibatsu powerful industrial families in Japan

1. Bourgeoisie are the middle class.

These are people who during older times lived in cities and were not just farmers or the working class but rather people like merchants or service providers. Originally, the concept wasn’t pejorative since Burger meant resident of a city, but it got a negative connotation when various revolutions started rising.

2. Creole is a person of European ancestry who was born in the Americas.

This term mostly revolves around the Caribbean area where numerous European settlers mixed with locals. The children born were creoles and they developed their own language which was a mixture of the two and eventually they became the majority.

3. Manumission is the practice of emancipating slaves.

It was a formal way to say that a slave had been freed by their masters and was a free man or a free woman. It was an important word during older times when slavery was allowed before it was abolished in the United States. In Europe, it was abolished even earlier.

4. Mestizo is a person of mixed European and indigenous descent.

These were people who were usually children of European settlers and local native americans and the term is mostly connected to the Spanish colonies where white Spaniards mixed with local Natives in the Latin American area of the Americas.

5. Mulatto is a person of European and African descent.

These people were born mostly through miscegenation where white people had children with black slaves. Since the practice was forbidden, any resulting children were treated as completely black and were born into slavery regardless of the fact that they were part white.

6. Proleteriat are the working class.

This word is heavily used in Marxist critique because it is the word used for the working class which is the majority of the population of every country in the world. It is believed by many that the Bourgeoisie is exploiting the Proleteriat for its own benefit and the proletariat needs to be freed.

7. Sepoys are indian troops.

These were soldiers from India during the British occupation and colonization of India and they were famous for the Sepoy Rebellion agains the British India Company after which the Maharaja took the top position as one of the locals but the rule was actually done by the British crown.

8. Suffrage is voting rights.

Suffrage is the concept of having voting rights. At first the voting rights belonged to only a smaller privileged group that had them, even in ancient Greece, but as time went by and people modernized their societies voting rights were extended and in democratic societies today suffrage is usually universal

9. Zaibatsu were powerful industrial families in Japan.

They came into existence following the Meiji restoration when the crown took back rule over Japan and wealthy entrepreneurs started opening more and more companies. They used to have huge power over certain regions of Japan but they lost their power following world war 2.