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Social Doctrine
Catholics in the USA
The Age of Reason
The French Revolution
First Vatican Council
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Who wrote Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Labor) in 1891, (which is the first 'social encyclical' of Catholic Social Tradition)?

Pope Leo XIII
100

Which king of England (1566-1625) granted land to Lord Baltimore (George Calvert), a Catholic Englishman, to found what would become the colony of Maryland? 

King James I
100
During what two (2) centuries did the 'Age of Reason' or 'the Enlightenment' occur?
17th and 18th Centuries
100
What is the name for the period of 'political violence that occurred after the start of the French Revolution, marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution'"?
the Reign of Terror
100

Who wrote the Syllabus of Errors, which condemned eighty propositions of contemporary thinkers such as liberal capitalism, socialism, fideism, pantheism, rationalism, and modernism.

Pope Pius IX (1864)
200
What is the term for the fallacious concept that "superior people" rise to the top and grow wealthy while the less capable can never attain more than the wages those at the top pay them?
Social Darwinism
200
Who was the first bishop in the United States? AND What was the name of his diocese?
John Carroll, SJ: Diocese of Baltimore (1789)
200
This was the Enlightenment-born belief that 'God exists and created the universe but is not active in it or human life'
deism
200

Who wrote On the Social Contract, which proposed then-revolutionary democratic principles of government?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
200
What is the term for Church teachings defined by the Magisterium as central, definitive, and authoritative?[Hint: Immaculate Conception]
dogma
300
What is the 'economic system based upon the private ownership of goods and the free market system'?
capitalism
300
What was the name of the aggressively anti-Catholic political group that was influential in the US in the 1850s?
the 'Know-Nothings'
300
This is the Enlightenment-born philosophical position that 'all human knowledge comes from experience-especially sensory experience'
empiricism
300
Who composed the First Estate, Second Estate, and the Third Estate in pre-Revolution France?

1Clergy, 2'Nobility' 3'commoners' 

300

What is the term for the belief that religious truth is a matter of faith alone, and cannot be established by reason? [In other words, reason is irrelevant to faith]

fideism
400
What is the moral principle of Catholic Social Teaching that (social or economic) problems should be addressed at the most local level, using the most local instruments?
subsidiarity
400
What Episcopalian mother of 5 moved to Baltimore to found a Catholic school for girls and later the community called the Sisters of Charity?
Elizabeth Ann Seton
400
This is an Enlightenment-born category of philosophical positions, all of which maintain 'that human reason is the final determinant of truth'
rationalism
400
When (Month, Day, Year) was the storming of the Bastille, (the French prison which most represented the monarchy's oppression)?
July 14, 1789
400
What was one (1) of the two (2) documents adopted at the First Vatican Council?
Pastor Aeternus (on papal infallibility) 

OR

Dei Filius (on faith and reason)

500
What is the belief that 'nuclear war can be prevented through the ability to respond to a military attack with a devastating counterattack'? [Hint: this belief is rejected in Catholic Social Teaching]
deterrence
500
Who was the first African American priest ordained in the United States? To what diocese was he ultimately assigned?
Augustus Tolton; Chicago
500
Name one (1) Enlightenment thinker (named in our textbook).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau OR Rene Descartes OR Voltaire OR Isaac Newton OR John Locke OR Blaise Pascal OR Galileo Galilei
500
Who was king when the French Revolution erupted?
Louis XVI
500
When and by whom was the First Vatican Council called ('convoked')?

1869, Pope Pius IX

[suspended in 1870; not officially closed until 1960 by Pope John XXIII]