Ps Chapter 1

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What year were women allowed to vote?

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1920

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What year were people ages 18-20 allowed to vote?

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1971

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After what year were African-Americans allowed to vote? (Voting Rights Act)

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1965

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Who was the civil rights activist who was forced out of the house she was renting on a large plantation; fired from her job; and arrested, jailed, and beaten by police after she tried to register to vote?

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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What committee launched its Voter Education Project in 1961 with the aim of ending black political powerlessness in the Deep South?

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The Student Non-Violent Coordinate Committee (SNCC)

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What was the SNCC's first step?

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To create Freedom Schools

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What are Freedom Schools?

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Schools that teach black citizens their rights under the law

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Where was the first freedom school founded?

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McComb, Mississippi

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Who founded the first freedom school?

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Robert Parris Moses

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What did Robert Parris Moses teach the black citizens in the freedom school?

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How to fill out the registration forms, and how to read and interpret the constitution of Mississippi for the "literacy test" required to register to vote.

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True or False: Despite the efforts of Moses and other SNCC volunteers, African American registration barely increased in Mississippi in the early 1960s.

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True

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Democracy's central idea is?

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that ordinary people want to rule themselves and are capable of doing so

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Many of our ideas about democracy originated with?

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the ancient Greeks

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The Greek word for democracy means?

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demos: "the people"

kraein: "to rule"

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Who observed that democracy "is a government in the hands of men and low birth, no property, and vulgar employments"?

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Aristotle

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Philosophers and rulers preferred _____ over democracy?

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Aristocracy, in which a hereditary nobility rules or a clerical establishment as in Iran today, where religious leaders rule)

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Democracy is

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rule by the people

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Oligarchy is

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Rule by the few, where a minority holds power over a majority

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Monarchy is

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Rule by one (such as King or Queen)

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Direct Democracy is

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A form of political decision making in which policies are decided by the people themselves, rather than by their representatives, acting either in small face-to-face assemblies or through the electoral process as in initiatives and referenda in the American states.

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Some cities during the Middle Ages in Europe were governed how?

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Directly by the people, at least by men who owned property, rather than nobles, church, or crown.

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Participatory Democracy is only possible in?

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small communities where citizens with abundant leisure time can meet on a face-to-face basis

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What is a representative democracy?

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a system in which the people select others, called representatives, to act on their behalf.

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what is empowering people to become more engaged and influential in the political process?

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The Internet

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What are the 3 benchmarks of democracy?

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popular sovereignty, political equality, and political liberty

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What is Popular Sovereignty?

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means that the people are the ultimate source of government authority and that what the government does is determined by what the people want

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How can we recognize popular sovereignty when we see it? (seven conditions)

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1) Government leaders are selected in competitive elections

2) Elections are free and fair

3)People participate in the political process

4) High quality information is available

5) The majority rules

6) Government policies reflect the wishes of the people

7) Government policies are effective

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what is political equality?

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the principle that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of the public business

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What is the second benchmark of public democracy?

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political equality

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what is equal protection?

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everyone in a democracy is treated the same by the government

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What is the third benchmark of democracy?

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political liberty

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what is political liberty?

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The principle that citizens in a democracy are protected from government interference in the exercise of a range of basic freedoms, such as the freedoms of speech, association, and conscience.

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what are civil rights?

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guarantees by government of equal citizenship to all social groups

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social contract

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The idea that government is the result of an agreement among people to form one, and that people have the right to create an entirely new government if the terms of the contract have been violated by the existing one.

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what is included in the essential liberties?

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freedom of speech, of conscience and religion, of the press, and of assembly and association embodied in the first amendment of the constitution

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what is liberal democracy?

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representative democracy characterized by popular sovereignty, liberty, and political equality.

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what is majority tyranny?

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suppression of the rights and liberties of a minority by the majority

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Jim Crow?

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popular term for the system of legally sanctioned racial segregation that existed in the American South until the middle of the 20th century

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every actor, institution, and process that influences what our politics are like and what our national government does can be placed into four main categories:

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structure, political linkage, government, and government action