Theories on the Origins of Government
Important People in Government
Types of Government
Economic Theories
Origins of American Government
100
Name the four theories that explain the origin of government.
What is the Evolution theory, Force Theory, Divine Right Theory, and the Social Contract Theory?
100
Name the U.S. Senators that represent Virginia in Congress.
Who are Webb and Warner?
100
Name the type of government that the U.S. has?
What is a representative democracy or a republic?
100
Name the economy that America has.
What is a mixed-market economy?
100
America declared independence from which country.
What is Great Britain?
200
Name of the theory that claims that the government emerged when all people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group.
What is the Force Theory?
200
Secretary of State
Who is Hilary Clinton?
200
Name the type of government in which the power and authority to rule are in the hands of a single individual.
What is an autocracy?
200
Means "to let alone"
What is Laissez-faire?
200
Established the principle that the territories west of the Appalachians were to be developed for statehodd on an equal basis with older states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
300
Name the theory that claims that the gods have chosen certain people to rule.
What is the Divine Right Theory?
300
Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
300
Name the type of government that surpresses all political oppostion.
What is oligarchy?
300
Name the type of economy that redistributes the wealth to the workers and makes all of the economic decisions.
What is communism?
300
Question that was never addressed in the Constitution.
What is slavery?
400
Name one of the first philosophers to theorize on how the social contract came about.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
400
Attorney General
Who is Eric Holder?
400
Name some countries with a constitutional monarchy.
What are Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, and the Netherlands?
400
Name the the three major economic decisions.
What are what and how much should be produced, how goods and services should be produced, and who gets the the goods and services that are produced?
400
Name some weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What are Congress not having the power to tax, regulate trade, force anyone to obey laws, and the fact that all states had to agree to pass laws?
500
Name some ethnic groups that believed that their rulers were either decendents of gods or at least chosen by gods.
Who are the Egypitians, Chinese, and Aztecs?
500
Name at atleast four members of the United States Supreme Court including the Chief Justice.
Who are John G. Roberts, Jr. (Chief Justice), John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Jr. and Sonia Sotomayer?
500
Name the characteristcs of democracy.
What are individual liberty, majority rule with minority rights, free elections, competing political parties, active citizen participation, a favorable economy, widespread education, strong civil society, and a social consensus?
500
Name the characteristics of capitalism.
What are private ownership and control of property and economic resources, free enterprise, competition among businesses, freedom of choice, and the possiblity of profits?
500
The Constitution went into effect on June 21, 1788. Name the state that was the last to ratify the Constitution and the full date.
Who is Rhode Island on May 29, 1790?
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