a government or state ruled by an elite, or privileged upper class.
What is Aristocracy
100
The Founding Fathers were familiar with the writing of this Greek philosopher, who observed that every state or national entity must perform three functions.
Who is Aristotle
100
The Stamp Act imposed taxes to Britain on such gambler's follies as playing cards and dice. True or False
What is TRUE
100
was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton
100
The rights of a person accused of a crime are protected by what provision in the Bill of Rights?
What is Due Process
200
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, "The Social Contract," however it was these two men who old in common the ideals of Social Contract Theory
What is Socrates and Hobbes
200
an individual's ideas about right or wrong to be practiced in one's personal life.
What is Private Morality
200
The values and principals about right and wrong pertaining to public policies and actions.
What is Public Morality
200
Powers not listed for the national government belong to the states.
Powers not listed for the government are for the citizens.
What is the 10th amendment
200
The dedication of citizens to the common welfare of their community or country, even at the cost of their individual interests.
What is Civic Virtue
300
The Executive branch of U.S. government includes both the president and the vice-president. True or False?
What is True
300
Police can't come into your house without a warrant.
You or your property may not be search without a warrant.
What is the 4th amendment
300
the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
What is Feudalism
300
Voltaire, one of her lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that ___________________ was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".
Who is Madame du Châtelet
300
The first Constitution of the United States, created to form a perpetual union and a firm league of friendship among the thirteen original states (1777)
What is The Articles of the Confederation
400
under Absolutism, decline of __________________, the rise of cities, growth of a national kingdoms all helped to centralize authority.
What is Feudalism
400
The British law that granted a monopoly on the importation of certain goods and thus eliminating the profits of colonial importers and shopkeepers.
What is The Tea Act
400
according to Aristotle, _____________________ is the "corrupt form" of a government of many/otherwise known as a Polity.
What is a Democracy
400
under this idea, most people in a society would exchange most of their freedoms for the safety of an organized society
What is Social Contract Theory
400
The division of government into three branches,(Legislative,Executive,Judicial), is called what?
What is Separation of Powers
500
painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Famous for his illustration of The Vitruvian Man or Universal Man
Who is Leonardo De Vinci
500
is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception.
What is Tabula rasa, meaning blank slate in Latin
500
According to Aristotle, the "corrupt" form of a government of one/otherwise known as a Monarchy is___________________
What is Tyranny
500
a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, included were victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
What is an Indentured Servant
500
The agreement signed between Great Britain and The United States that ended the Revolutionary war. (1783)