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36 Cards in this Set
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Citizens believe that they have the ability to achieve something desirable and that the government listens to people like them |
Efficacy |
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System of government in which the government is centrally controls every aspect of peoples lives. |
Totalitarianism |
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Government in which a member of the royal family, usually a king or queen, has absolute authority over a territory and its government |
Monarchy |
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In these tyrannical radical governments, citizens enjoyed neither rights nor freedoms, and the state is the tool of the dictator. These regimes tend to center on a particular ideology, religion, or personality. North Korea is a contemporary example of this type of regime, as well as Afghanistan under the Islamic fundamentalist regime of the Taliban |
Totalitarianism |
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Integrated system of ideas or believes about political values in general and the role of government in particular -- the extent to which the government should promote economic equality in society. develops from things like educational background, religion, experiences with government, etc. |
Political ideology |
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On the traditional ideological spectrum, which group supports social and economic equality, and desires a strong government to control the economy? |
Socialism |
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On the traditional ideological spectrum, which group wants economic equality but social freedom, with the government's goal being to provide protection of fundamental liberties, and government action to promote opportunity? |
Liberalism |
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On the traditional ideological spectrum, which group desires of government goal of nondiscrimination and opportunity, protection of some economic freedoms, security, and stability. They want government action to balance the wants of workers and businesses, and the government to foster stability? |
Middle-of-the-road/Moderate/centrist |
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On the traditional ideological spectrum, which group desires there goal of government to maintain traditional values, order, stability, and economic freedom, and wants government action to protect and bolster the capitalist system, while placing few limitations on fundamental rights |
Conservatism |
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On the traditional ideological spectrum, which group desires absolute economic and social freedom from the government, with no government regulations of economy, and no limitations on fundamental rights? |
Libtertarianism |
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Left/Right Wing - promotes change, radicalism, reform. Considers established values and policies unworthy of preserving |
Left |
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Left/Right Wing- promotes established values and politics conveying such. Promotes following established frameworks |
Right |
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Want more economic and social equality and a big government to enforce it |
Socialists |
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Want economic equality but social freedom |
Liberals |
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A structure of government in which citizens discuss and decide policy through majority rule. In New England, where many colonists settled after fleeing England to his escape religious persecution, this form of government emerged in town meetings, where the colonists themselves decided who was eligible to participate in government. |
Pure (Direct) Democracy. |
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A structure of government in which citizens elect representatives who decide policies on their behalf. Beyond the forms of direct democracy prevalent in the New England colonies, nearly all the American colonies had council structured according to the principles of this type of government. |
Representative democracy |
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An agreement between people and their leaders in which the people agree to give up some liberties so that their other liberties are protected |
Social contract |
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Theory that government is created by the people and depends on the people for the authority to rule |
Popular sovereignty |
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Government that is restricted in what it can do so that the rights of the people are protected |
Limited government |
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What are the four main Basic roles of the government? |
To protect their sovereign territory and their citizenry and to provide national defense, to preserve order and stability, to establish and maintain a legal system, to provide services |
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What was the Boston tea party a reaction to? |
The Parliament passing of the Tea Act, which gave the East India Tea company a monopoly on tea imported into the colonies. |
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On March 5, 1770, an angry mob of nearly 1800 struggling colonists clashed with the British soldiers, who shot into the crowd, leaving five dead and six wounded. This event is known as? |
The Boston massacre |
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What was the result of the seven years war? |
To help pay for the costs of waging the war, the British Parliament turned to the colonies for increased revenues. |
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Was was the first new tariff imposed after the end of the seven years war? |
The Sugar Act |
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Structurally, the articles of Confederation created only one governing body, a _______. |
Congress. |
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Structurally, the articles of Confederation created only one governing body, a Congress. The Congress was a ________ legislature, meaning that it only had one chamber. |
unicameral |
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Under the articles of Confederation, every state had from ___-___ delegates in Congress, with how many votes? |
2-7; only one |
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The articles of Confederation did not create a judicial branch, and executive branch, or a Chief Executive Officer. T/F? |
True |
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What was the requirement to amend the articles of Confederation? |
Unanimous agreement among all 13 states |
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Under the articles of Confederation, although Congress could approve policies prevalent to foreign affairs, defense, and the coining of money, it was not authorized to? |
Raise revenue through taxation. Only state governments could levy and collect taxes. |
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The first new tarriff imposed after the end of the seven years war. In addition to increasing the taxes on such imported goods as molasses, coffee, and textiles, this act directed that all the taxes thus collected be sent directly to Britain instead of to the colonial assemblies, as had been the practice until then. |
Sugar Act (1764) |
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Terrace passed by Parliament which taxed the paper used for all legal documents, bills of sale, deeds, advertisements, newspapers, and even playing cards. |
Stamp Act (1765) |
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Act that directed each colonial assembly to provide supplies to meet the basic needs of the British soldiers stationed within its colony. Parlament expanded this law in 1766 to require the assemblies to ensure housing for the soldiers. Throughout the colonies, violent reactions to this act erupted. |
Quartering Act |
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Act passed by Parliament not only expanded the list of imported goods that would be taxed, but also stated that Parliament had unilateral power to impose taxes as a way of raisinng revenue and that the colonists had no right to object. With this law, the colonists dramatically stepped up their civic resistance. |
Townshend Duties Act |
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The new governmental structure proposed at the Constitutional Convention, which consisted of a bicameral legislature (Congress), an executive elected by the legislature, and a separate national judiciary; state representation in Congress would be proportional, based on State population; the people would elect members to the lower house, and members of the lower house would elect the members of the upper house. |
The Virginia plan |
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The proposal presented in response to the Virginia plan by the less populous states at the Constitutional convention, which called for a unicameral national legislature in which all states would have an equal voice (equal representation), an executive office composed of several people elected by Congress, and the Supreme Court whose members would be appointed by the executive office. |
New Jersey plan |
