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Question 1

What are the 4 characteristics of the state?

Answer 1

Population, territory, sovereignty, government.

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

People in the state. The most important

Question 3

Territory

Answer 3

Land in the state that is known and recognized with boundaries.

Question 4

Sovereignty

Answer 4

The states’ supreme and absolute power within its territory; decides its own foreign and domestic decisions.

Question 5

Government

Answer 5

Needed in every state. The rules and the way to enforce them.

Question 6

The main purposes of government are described in the…

Answer 6

Preamble of the Consitution

Question 7

The purposes according to the Preamble (6 things):

Answer 7

More perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide common defense, promote general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty (guarantee individual rights)

Question 8

Three standards of government:

Answer 8

Who can participate?
Geographic distribution of the governmental power within the state.
Relationship between the legislative and executive branches.

Question 9

Direct democracy

Answer 9

the people make their own decisions directly

Question 10

Indirect democracy

Answer 10

a small group of people chosen by the citizens to act as their representatives, expresses what the people want; republic

Question 11

A democracy gives power to…

Answer 11

the people

Question 12

Dictatorship gives power to…

Answer 12

one leader who has absolute power; the people can do nothing about it.

Question 13

Autocracy

Answer 13

government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

Question 14

Oligarchy

Answer 14

government in which the power to rule is held by a small group

Question 15

Unitary government

Answer 15

all powers held by a single, central agency

Question 16

Confederation

Answer 16

alliance of independent states

Question 17

Federal government

Answer 17

powers of government are divided between a central/national government state and local governments (US has this)

Question 18

Concepts of democracy (5 things)

Answer 18

Every citizen matters, equality, follow majority rule but don’t forget minority rights, compromise, wide spectrum of individual freedoms

Question 19

What is the difference between duties and responsibilities as a citizen?

Answer 19

Your duties are required and responsibilities are just things you should do.

Question 20

Free enterprise system

Answer 20

an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership; investments are determined by private decision; determined in a free market

Question 21

Who decides what is made, the prices of things, etc. in a free enterprise system?

Answer 21

The people

Question 22

Who had a rule over the colonies and why?

Answer 22

England; they were seen as a financial investment.

Question 23

What were clashes in interest between the colonies and England (6 things)?

Answer 23

Taxes, free speech, free press, land ownership, free religion, a fair system of justice

Question 24

Why were governors put in the colonies?

Answer 24

To be England’s eyes and ears

Question 25

Who did the colonists want to listen to as far as their laws being made?

Answer 25

Their elected colonial legislature

Question 26

Colonists were fed up with Englands…

Answer 26

Tyranny

Question 27

Tyranny

Answer 27

The abuse of power

Question 28

Who were some important people in the revolution (5 people)?

Answer 28

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Frankin, Tomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams

Question 29

What were two documents that inspired that inspired the colonists that focused on legal rights, free speech, etc.?

Answer 29

Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights

Question 30

Why did the colonists like the Magna Carta

Answer 30

It was the first time the people had a say in the government

Question 31

Why did the colonists like the English Bill of Rights

Answer 31

John Locke inspired many of the central ideas

Question 32

Natural Rights

Answer 32

rights all men are born with and no one should be able to deny (Life and Liberty)

Question 33

John Locke’s ideas

Answer 33

if a government abuses power then the people should change it; protect natural rights; Representative government is the only legit form

Question 34

Montesquieu ideas

Answer 34

divide power to prevent tyranny; separation of powers, limited government; checks and balances, federalism.

Question 35

What did the colonists believe was the only way to get what they wanted from England?

Answer 35

Independence

Question 36

Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 36

Thomas Jefferson

Question 37

Declaration of Independence

Answer 37

lists all of the abuses of power by England against the colonies; declared themselves separate from England and its rule; free and independent states

Question 38

Articles of Confederation

Answer 38

the first attempt at a plan of government after the war.

Question 39

With the Articles of Confederation, most of the power remained with….

Answer 39

the states; the was no president. (Congress had no real power)

Question 40

Congress couldn’t do what during the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 40

Tax and solve issues between states.

Question 41

What were the states afraid of?

Answer 41

Tyranny

Question 42

What led the leaders of the states to look for another plan of government?

Answer 42

Debt, internal turmoil, things like Shay’s rebellion

Question 43

What was drafted to replace the Articles of Confederation and in what year did it replace them?

Answer 43

The Constitution; 1787