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civics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Determine important information from Prince Hall’s life before 1777 that led him to engage in social action | Born in Barbados 1738. In the 1770’s he moved to Boston and earned his freedom. He was a leather worker and church leader. (He was also educated) |
| Identify key words, phrases, and excerpts in Prince Hall’s 1777 Petition | Colonists were hypocrites because they wanted freedom but were not sure if they wanted to end enslavement. Says black people have natural rights that cannot be taken from them just like everyone else. |
| Describe ways Prince Hall is persuasive in his 1777 Petition. (Foundational Ideas, Logical Arguments, Appealing to Emotions) | Hall used Fond. Ideas by referring to documents like the Dec (discussed inalienable rights and equality, etc.) He used log. arguments by calling the colonists hypocritical. and he used pathos by talking about how people were being ripped from their fams. |
| If given a feature of our government, you can identify where or from who we got it from - ancient greece | Written constitution and trial with jury |
| If given a feature of our government, you can identify where or from who we got it from - rome | 2 legislative bodies and we took the name senate from them |
| If given a feature of our government, you can identify where or from who we got it from - british government | The idea of government officials being held responsible/accountable and guaranteed rights to english people |
| If given a feature of our government, you can identify where or from who we got it from - native American governments | Federalism |
| If given a feature of our government, you can identify where or from who we got it from - enlightenment thinkers | seperation of power and checks and balances |
| Explain the foundational ideas in your own words (1. We have communities in order to pursue and protect the “common good”. | Means communities make decisions that benefit the majority and protects the members’ rights in order to improve the lives of everyone. |
| All people are born free and equal. (“natural rights”), | Means that everyone is born with natural unalienable rights that they are born with and cannot be taken away from them. No one is naturally above or below someone else. |
| When we form or join a community, we give up the choice to do whatever we want, and in return the community is supposed to protect its member’s rights and do what’s best for the members of the community. (“social contract”), | Means that people give up a little of their freedom so you and everyone else can be safer and treated fairly. |
| People have the right to monitor their community, to make sure it is doing its job, and to use their voice to speak out if it isn’t.) | If the government or leader of the community is abusing it’s power the people have the power to alter or overthrow the government |
| Identify and describe key people : John Locke | Natural rights/being born equal, people having ability to overthrow a government that abuses their power |
| Identify and describe key people : Cicero | Communities exist to pursue & protect the common good (promo 2 rules of justice: nobody should be harmed unless they wronged or harmed someone else, & also promoting the common good. Wrote about laws & justice.The gov should work for the common good |
| Identify and describe key people : Aristotle | Communities exist to pursue and protect the common good (Governments are used to protect people’s rights and he says humans need to use their ability of communication through language as a way to say what is good and bad) |
| Identify and describe key people : Jean-Jacques Rousseau “When we form or join a community, we give up our ability to do whatever we want, and in return, the community is supposed to protect people’s rights and do what’s best for its people”. | (when joining community you lose natural liberty and power to get anything you want but you gain Civil liberty and Ownership of what you possess) |
| If given a contributing document, you can identify the foundational idea it inspired. Magna Carta | People have the right to monitor and challenge their government (The leader (king) is not about the law and unfair ruling can be checked) |
| If given a contributing document, you can identify the foundational idea it inspired. great law of peace | People have the right to monitor and challenge their government (It said members of the community could voice their concerns and have them addressed.) |
| If given a contributing document, you can identify the foundational idea it inspired. (2, Dec of ind.) | 1. Says an established government should do what would benefit its people’s safety and happiness. 2. States that all men are create equal and given unalienable rights |
| If given a contributing document, you can identify the foundational idea it inspired. (2 more, Dec of ind). | 3. States governments are there to protect people’s rights and it is an agreement between the government and people (social contract) 4. Says if the government becomes destructive the people have the power to alter and/or abolish the government. |
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