What is Civics?
100: Civics is the study of how people do what to make decisions for their communities?
Make changes or govern themselves
100: Knowing your __________ helps you defend them.
Rights
True or False: School rules are an example of small-scale civics in action.
True. they are to keep you protected and safe and people made those rules for us.
100: Many ideas for our government came from where?
Ancient Greece
100: Ancient Greece was made up of what kind of independent cities?
City-states
300: Civics is like the “__________ ____________” for your country.
User manual
200: In a democracy, people who understand the system have more what?
Power and influence
200: Name one example of a city law.
Speed limits, park rules, voting rules, curfews.
What city in Greece did most of this come from?
Athens, Greece.
500: Ancient Greece was located in what part of Europe?
Southeastern Europe
200: The word “civics” comes from what other language”?
Latin
300: Communities need citizens who can do what together? Hint: like a team
Work together
300: Name one example of a national law.
Driving age, voting rules (on a larger/national scale), safety regulations (any one).
200: Ancient Greece, especially Athens, gave us one of the earliest forms of what?
Democracy
200: Define a direct democracy and where it originated.
A form of government where citizens vote directly on laws; used in Athens, Greece.
400: Name two things civics includes besides how leaders are chosen.
How laws are made, how people can make changes in their community.
400: Name two things you might do as an informed or active citizen.
Vote, pay taxes, serve on juries, follow laws (any two).
400: Even sports teams and friend groups have what?
Rule making processes or decision making.
True or False: Citizens living in either form of democracy have no influence or power in their own government.
False!
300: In Athens, laws were passed by what kind of vote?
Majority vote.
Describe what civics is in your own words.
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500: History shows that people who don’t understand government lose what?
Influence and power
How does civics influence your daily life?
Shapes/influences it by you enacting and obeying laws, etc.
400: Athens became known for art, philosophy, and what kind of innovation?
Political/government invention and innovation.
400: The modern U.S. uses what kind of democracy instead of direct democracy?
Representative democracy.