Classical Era
Type of democracy found in Athens, Greece.
What is direct democracy?
What are the three natural rights according to John Locke?
In the divine right of kings, monarch's right to rule comes from this?
Who is God?
Ideological and political revolution based on the principles of the American Enlightenment that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1789.
What is the American Revolution?
She is Mrs. Sheridan's Student Teacher this school year.
Who is Ms. Schroeder?
This was introduced into laws by Abrahamic Religions. (HINT: Think Ten Commandments)
What is a moral code (morality/ethics)?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people needed an absolute ruler to protect them from their own cruel, selfish, greedy selves.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This term refers to "rebirth" of the classical ideas of Greece and Rome in Europe, starting in Florence, Italy.
What is Renaissance?
A government system where power is divided between national and state governments.
What is the federal system?
This impressive invention help to increase literacy of the middle class in Europe.
What is the printing press?
These laws were publicly displayed in Rome.
What are the Twelve Tables?
What is the social contract?
This female Enlightenment thinker promoted the idea of equality for women.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution that spell out Americans' rights in relation to their government.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This is the year that Woodbridge High School opened.
What is 1980?
This type of government from Ancient Rome inspired the United States form of democracy.
What is republic (representative democracy)?
Baron de Montesquieu contributed this idea to the United States, stating that power should be shared by three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
This is the name of the social gatherings held at mansions of wealthy citizens to discuss ideas of the Enlightenment.
What are salons?
The three branches of American government that divide power so that no one governing body becomes too powerful.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This is the subject that Mr. Krebs taught before becoming Principal of WHS.
What is Science?
This Athenian leader delivered a funeral speech in which he discussed the democratic characteristics of t the government of Athens.
Who is Pericles?
This is the term used to describe Rousseau's belief in rule by the majority for the common good of society.
What is the general will?
This is the term that describes the idea of government is given permission or allowed to make laws by the people who submit to laws.
What is consent of the governed?
Congress where American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule and drafted the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Continental Congress?
This is the capital city of Alaska.
What is Juneau?