[Civics] Term 2: Human rights

Question 1

When was the Declaration of Human Rights created?

Answer 1

1948

Question 2

What does the Declaration of Human Rights list?

Answer 2

Fundamental rights and freedom to which all human beings are entitled

Question 3

Who drafted the Declaration of Human Rights?

Answer 3

A committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt (USA)

Question 4

Why was the Declaration of Human Rights created?

Answer 4

Because the United Nations Charter did not specify the rights of the people

Question 5

What are civil liberties?

Answer 5

Basic freedom from government interference

Question 6

What are civic rights?

Answer 6

Rights that protect people and communities from discrimination

Includes positive/negative rights

Question 7

What are positive rights?

Answer 7

Rights that require the government to take action to provide

Question 8

What are negative rights?

Answer 8

Freedom from interference (civil liberties are a specific set of negative rights, meaning free from government inference)

Question 9

What is universalism?

Answer 9

All humans possess an equal sets of rights

Question 10

What is relativism?

Answer 10

Rights are not universal but are instead shaped by culture, religion, or tradition

Question 11

What was the Magna Carta (signed in 1215)?

Answer 11

Rights that limited the power of the monarch

Question 12

What was the 1689 English Bill of Rights?

Answer 12

Increased the power of the parliament & people –> ultimately leading to the limiting power of the monarch

Question 13

What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in France?

Answer 13

Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights

Question 14

What does the 1791 US Bill of Rights consist of?

Answer 14

Consists of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, with its main purpose to protect the basic rights of citizens

Question 15

When did the British Empire abolish the slave trade?

Answer 15

1807

Question 16

When did the British Empire abolish slavery?

Answer 16

1833

Question 17

When did Russia banish serfdom? (like slaves, but a little bit more freedom)

Answer 17

1861

Question 18

When did the US ban slavery?

Answer 18

1863

Question 19

What is the Banjul Carter?

Answer 19

Regional agreement adopted by African countries to protect human rights and promote development across the continent

Question 20

Why is the Banjul Carter important for the people in the African countries once colonized?

Answer 20

Allowed them to make their own decisions

Question 21

What are human rights?

Answer 21

Rights that we have as humans

Question 22

What is the purpose of human rights?

Answer 22

Ensure that every individual feel worth