Chapters 3 & 4 Part 1
Believed that within this system of checks and balances each branch would be both separate from and dependent on one another so that no one branch became to powerful.
Who is Charles de Baron de Montesquieu?
A classical liberal economic system combined with a government that used legislation to give workers protections such as limited working hours and a minimum wage, and a safety net with features like pensions and medical insurance.
What is Welfare Capitalism?
A recession and inflation occurring at the same time.
What is Stagflation?
This was inspired by the Truman Doctrine and helped European countries escape economic hardship.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This controversial case was overturned in 2022 and restricted women's abortion rights.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The first to convert Keynes' theories into practice and implement massive public works programs that put people to work.
What is Roosevelt's New Deal?
This type of socialism favours the abolition of private property and the centralization of the means of production in the hands of the state.
What is Marxism?
In 1911, President Taft and the U.S. Supreme Court used this to force the Standard Oil Company to break up into 34 smaller, independent companies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
ICE raids are a contemporary example of this playing out.
What is McCarthyism?
Freedom from vs freedom to
What are Negative & Positive Freedoms?
Believed in a direct democracy and that citizens themselves should make the law.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This group had six goals in mind:
Universal suffrage for all men over 21
Equal sized electoral districts
Voting by secret ballot
An end to the need for property qualifications for parliament
Pay for members of parliament
Annual elections
Who are Chartists?
Situations when too many depositors try to withdraw their savings from a financial institution causing it to go bankrupt, which happened during the early part of The Great Depression.
What are Bank Runs?
The star of the non-alignment movement at the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Yugoslavia?
This ideology seeks to place restrictions on the way people use or consume their own property.
What is Environmentalism?
An intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries when classical liberalism spread through Europe and changed some people’s beliefs about religions, reason, nature, and human beings; also called the Age of Reason.
What is Enlightenment?
Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal was a new kind of liberalism often known as this.
What is Progressivism?
Government economic policies that include reduced income and business taxes, reduced regulation (controls on business), and increased government spending on the military.
What is Trickle-Down Economics or Reaganomics?
Military and political struggles of people for independence from countries that have colonized or otherwise oppressed them.
What are Liberation Movements?
An act of Parliament first passed in 1867, since amended many times, dealing with the governance of reserves and the rights and benefits of registered individuals.
What is the Indian Act?
Believed that government exists to protect life, liberty, and property while the real power rests with the people of the state.
Who is John Locke?
Farmers received minimal compensation for their small strips of land, and far fewer agricultural labourers were needed on mechanized farms; thus, the farmers forced off the land became a large workforce for the new factories.
What is the Enclosure Act/Movement?
Control of a country’s money supply is the best means to encourage economic growth and limit unemployment and inflation, advocated by Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek.
What is Monetarism?
This neo-conservative was elected as President of the United States and reignited the Cold War after a period of detente.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
There are general laws of relationships that are considered common to most Aboriginal cultures. These are: