Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

A system for exercising authority

Answer 1

Government

Question 2

The idea that people can govern themselves

Answer 2

Democracy

Question 3

A state ruled by the noble class

Answer 3

Aristocracy

Question 4

Adult male residents who were granted rights and responsibilities

Answer 4

Citizens

Question 5

A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives

Answer 5

Direct democracy

Question 6

Government controlled by one person

Answer 6

Monarchy

Question 7

Reason and intelligence to discover predictable patterns

Answer 7

Natural laws

Question 8

A form of government in which power rests in the citizen

Answer 8

Republic

Question 9

Aristocratic branch

Answer 9

Senate

Question 10

Religion of the Hebrews

Answer 10

Judaism

Question 11

Codes given to the leader Moses by god in 1200 B.C

Answer 11

Ten Commandments

Question 12

Leaders and teachers who were believed by the Jews to be messengers from God

Answer 12

Prophets

Question 13

Religion founded by Jesus

Answer 13

Christianity

Question 14

Brilliant cultural movement in Europe

Answer 14

Renaissance

Question 15

Religious reform movement that began in the 16th century

Answer 15

Reformation

Question 16

The political and Economic system of the middles ages

Answer 16

Feudalism

Question 17

Customs and principles established over time

Answer 17

Common law

Question 18

The source of traditional English respect for individual rights and liberties

Answer 18

Magna Carta

Question 19

To have the law work in known orderly ways

Answer 19

Due process of law

Question 20

Englands national legislature

Answer 20

Parliament

Question 21

When monarchs are chosen by a God and responsible only to god to challenge the authority of the monarch

Answer 21

Divine rights

Question 22

The turning points in English constitutional history

Answer 22

Glorious revolution

Question 23

Where the powers of the ruler are restricted by the constitution and the laws of the country

Answer 23

Constitutional monarchy

Question 24

Formal summary of the rights and liberties considered essential to the people

Answer 24

Bill of rights

Question 25

Intellectual movement

Answer 25

Enlightenment

Question 26

The agreement that people definite and limit their individual rights thus creating an organized society or government

Answer 26

Social contract

Question 27

The right to life liberty and property

Answer 27

Natural rights

Question 28

Dividing government into three separate branches

Answer 28

Separation of power

Question 29

The colonist fight for independence from Great Britain

Answer 29

American revolution

Question 30

Citizens elect representatives to make laws and polices for them

Answer 30

Representative government

Question 31

Executive, legislative and judicial branch with checks and balances

Answer 31

Federal system

Question 32

The fight to win democractic freedoms for the people

Answer 32

French Revolution

Question 33

An international organization working for world peace and the betterment of humanity

Answer 33

United Nations