Vocabulary
Hobbes put forth this idea, which says that before government was created, people lived in a ________, where they were only looking out for themselves.
What is the State of Nature?
In ancient Athens, they practiced this type of government, where citizens created and voted on the laws themselves, not through elected representatives.
What is a Direct Democracy?
This is essentially a blueprint for a government.
What is a constitution?
People from a wealthy class were called this.
What is nobility?
In this type of government, a king or queen rules that land.
What is a monarchy?
In Hobbes’ view, people agreed to give up some rights and power in exchange for protection. This was called ________.
What is a social contract?
Two or three times a month, the citizens of Athens gathered together to vote on laws. This gathering was called the_____.
What is Assembly?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had just one branch.
What is the legislative branch?
In 1215, members of the nobility created this document to limit the powers of the king and preserve the rights of the nobility.
What is the Magna Carta?
In this type of government, one ruler has absolute power.
What is a dictatorship?
This philosopher discussed the idea of Natural Rights. These include_____________.
What are life, liberty, and property?
But meeting two or three times a month isn’t very often. Athens needed a group that could meet frequently and handle the city’s day-to-day affairs. So a “full-time” government, called the ____________, was established.
What is the Council of 500?
These were three failures or problems with the Articles of Confederation.
What is a weak central government, no ability to tax, and all states had the same level of voting power despite population numbers?
This document, written in 1620, was created to answer the question: Who is in charge?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These two types of government are examples of an autocracy.
What is monarchy and dictatorship?
These three things motivated people from England to colonize the New World.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
To deal with those charged with a crime or if someone wanted to challenge a law they didn’t like, the Athenians created this.
What is The People's Court?
In 1787, this man and his men made a plan to raid the federal armory for weapons in Springfield, MA.
Who was Daniel Shays?
This document expanded the rights of the Parliament and the people, while limiting the powers of the king even more.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
In this type of democracy, people elect leaders to represent them in the government.
What is a Representative Democracy?
These three countries/continents made up what became known as the Triangle Trade.
What are N. America, England, and Africa?
Instead of having a courtroom with lawyers and a judge, cases in ancient Athens were decided by this group.
What is "trial by jury", meaning, cases were decided by people--often, lots of them!
These laws (ordinances) established a process for helping the territories create their own governments and eventually be added as states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The idea that all people must follow the laws, and that the laws are enforced fairly for all people.
What is The Rule of Law?
What is anarchy?