Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Civics Test- 10/1/12
Creating our Government, and Foundations of Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Magna Carta is- | King is not all power, limited power of government |
| English Bill of Rights | Sets Limits of what a ruler can and cannot do |
| Representative Government | Elect Delegates to make laws and conduct government |
| Mayflower Compact | Colonial plans for self government |
| Colonial Legislatures | Delegates meet to discuss new laws to cope with new circumstances around the world |
| Virgina House of Burgesses | 1st colonial legislature |
| Seperation of powers in the Colonies | Divided powers of government through govenors, legislatures, and courts |
| Stamp act | first direct tax on the colonies by king |
| Intolerable acts | group of taxes in relation to the Boston Tea Party |
| 1st continental congress | Delegates meet to discuss intolerable acts |
| Embargo | Agreed to prohibit trade with Britain |
| 2nd Continental Congress | Delegates come together to organize to fight the British in the Revolutionary War |
| Declaration of Independance | A statement of reason for independence from the British |
| Articles of Cofederation | Continued the structure and operation of government, under the 2nd continental congress |
| Unicameral Government | uncameral legislatures one house legislatures |
| Strengths | 1)Make War and Peace 2)Army and Navy 3)Regulate Indian Affairs |
| Weaknesses | 1)Taxes 2)Regulate Trade 3)No executive Branch |
| Virginia Plan | Proposed a strong National Government with a bicameral legislature that representation is based on population |
| New Jersey Plan | Proposed a Unicameral legislature with equal representation of all states |
| Connecticut Compromise | Set up a bicameral legislature with HOR, based on population an senate based on equal representation |
| 3/5ths compromise | slaves would count as 3/5ths of a person in terms of population and taxes |
| Ratification | Needed 9 out of the 13 states, ratified when Bill of Rights was promised to be written |
| Anarchy | Absence of Government |
| Government | state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens |
| State v.s. Nation | State must have a definite territory, has a government without the approval of any higher authority, Nation group of people who united by common bond |
| State gets Authority 2 ways | People accept governments authority and right to lead them, power helps 2 force people to do things they might not do on their own |
| Legitimacy | people accept government's authority and right to lead them |
| Coercive Force | Overwhelming power helps to force people to do things they might not do on their own |
| Population | Shares a similar consensus democracy, freedom of religion etc. no risk civil war |
| Territory | Has established boundaries |
| Sovereignty | It has absolute authority within it's territorial boundaries |
| Government- Features of a State | Every state has some form of government 1)maintains social order 2)provide public services 3) enforces disicions that are binding on all people |
| Evolutionary Theory | Head of the family ruled, large extended family need more organization |
| Force Theory | War caused government people who looked to one person to lead them |
| Divine Right Theory | God or God's choose certain people to rule to oppose ruler ws to oppose god |
| Social Contract Theory | Thomas Hobbes- people surrender power for protection in a contract. John Locke- people have natural rights of life, liberty, and property, |
| Maintaining Social Order | People ave not figured how to live without conflict. Governments controls and contains conflict |
| Providing public servces | Provide essential services tat make community life possible and promote the general welfare |
| Providing National Security | Protect the people against attacks by other statesand handle normal relations with other nations |
| Making Economic Decisions | Government pass laws that shape the economic environment of the nation |
| Unitary System | Government system that gives all key powers to the national or central government |
| Federal System | Government that divides the powers of government between the national and state or local |
| Autocracy | Power and authority to rule are in the hands of one individual |
| Totalitarian Dictatorship | Control all aspects of life |
| Monarchy | King or Queen |
| Absolute Monarcy | Absolute power |
| Constitutional Monarchy | Rule under laws of constitution |
| Oligarchy | Small Group of power that holds the government |
| Democracy | Government ruled by the people |
| Direct Democracy | People vote on issues as citizens |
| Representative Democracy | People elect representatives to vote on issues |
Created by:
tatummilo333
Popular World History sets