Unit 2 Civics Summative

What is the title of unit 2

What is the title of unit 2

Government Influences

What were we looking at through the entire unit

Certain people and events that affected the government throughout the years

What is a theory of government

A theory of government is how government came to be in the beginning of time.

Force Theory

Force Theory is when people from a certain area are brought together for a common purpose. They are under control of one person or group. This coming together was not a suggestion, people were forced to join.

Social Contract Theory

Social Contract Theory is when a group of people agree to come together in peace, but for a common purpose. People, by contract, surrendered some of their power, in order to gain protection form the government.

Divine Right Theory

Divine Right Theory is when a group of people who share beliefs of a god come together. They believe their god chose their leader, and that the leader has to obey what their god tell him/her to do. (This is when a religion chooses government)

Evolutionary Theory

Evolutionary Theory is considered to be more natural. The group starts as a family with a Patriarch or Matriarch, but eventually grows into a more complex group and they need to create a government.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment was a time period where people developed ideas about human existence, including peoples' basic rights and the level of control they should have over their government.

How did the Enlightenment thinkers influence United States Government? (answer in 2 sentences)

The Enlightenment thinkers influenced the U.S. government because we took ideas from them and created different types of government. A few examples would be monarchy and democracy.

Hobbes was known as the first person to do what

Hobbs was the first person known to speak about social contract.

What is a state of nature

no government, no rules, and everyone has to defend themselves.

Tabula Rasa

blank slate

Natural Rights

Life, Liberty, and Property

Separation of Powers

Separation of powers is that the government is split, so different sections have different jobs

Checks and Balances

A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power

Who wrote the book "The Social Contract"

Rousseau

When was the Magna Carta signed

June 15, 1215

Limited Government

the powers of government are restricted by a written constitution.

Individual rights

human beings are born with rights that are inalienable, which means they cannot be taken away

Rule of Law

all people in society are subject to the law, and everyone must bear the consequences if they choose to break it.

Shared Powers

the power to make decisions must fall in the hands of two or more groups.

What did the Petition of Right do?

limited the king's power

What are 3 similarities between the English Parliament and the U.S. Senate

1) They both have upper and lower chambers

2)They both create laws

3)They are both representative assemblies

What type of assembly is the English Parliament?

representative assembly

What did the Charters of the Virginia Company of London do

1) They established colonies in north America

2) they had common law

3) They guaranteed the rights of Englishmen who were colonists.

common law

the basic laws that everyone must follow

What are 5 ways the Great Law of Peace and the U.S. Constitution are similar

1) They both limit sections of the government from holding one or more offices

2) They both talk about the process of removing leaders

3)They both demonstrate 2 branches of the legislature.

4)they both talk about the certain people who are able to declare war.

5)They both are about separating the power of government branches.

Who said that the idea of the federal government, in which certain powers are given to a central government and all other powers are reserved for the states, was borrowed from the system of government used by the Iroquoian League of Nations?

Benjamin Franklin

How are the Native American tribes similar to states?

States are to tribes as the confederacy is to the government

How is the Iroquoian Confederacy similar to the United States?

They are both are the main governments that lead the states/tribes

What are 3 examples of how other nations influenced American democracy?

1. limited government

2. representative government

3. individual rights

When was the Iroquois Confederacy founded

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