Unit 1
Values self-interest and rule of law
What is Liberalism?
Responsible for the theory of the invisible hand
Who is Adam Smith?
Upset Francophone Canadians over not requiring French to be taught in English provinces, leading to...
What is the Conscription Crisis of 1917?
The process of applying for citizenship.
What is naturalization?
Who is the best social studies teacher?
What is Ms. Monast or Life?!
Man is greedy, selfish and needs to be controlled
What is Thomas Hobbes?
The belief that you should help the greatest amount of people as possible and cause the least amount of detriment
Governments can intervene when there is a serious threat to society.
What is the War Measures or Emergency Act?
Armed conflict between an Asian nation and the US.
What is the Vietnam War?
Politics of a specific area or pertaining to an area.
What is geopolitics?
The signing of this led to the monarchy obeying the rule of law
What is the Magna Carta?
Economist who favoured government intervention
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
Redrawing voting maps to favour a political party.
What is Gerrymandering?
Ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
What is hedonism?
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
This time period leads to a shift in thinking and a move towards individualism
What is the renaissance or the Enlightenment (during the renaissance)?
Violent shift from an agrarian economy to a system where all owned the means of production
What is the Russian Revolution?
Politcal policies to encourage and/or hire or accept more diversity.
What is affirmative action?
The belief in or practice of selfless concern for the well-being of others.
What is altruism?
Issued a command to use a nuclear weapon on Russia.
Who is Richard Nixon?
A financial organization where customers/consumers are part owners and earn dividends/money back when they purchase from this type of organization
Supported reform of factories, children's education and better wages
What is John Stuart Mill?
Discussions on disarmament
What is SALT I and II?
A hypothetical situation designed to make you question ideas, beliefs or actions.
What is a Thought Experiment?
An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
What is a serf?