Virtual SC- Government CP
final exam vocab (LATEST
UPDATED VERSION)
Unit 1 - answer
government - answer The institution through which a society makes
and enforces its public policies
Sovereignty - answer supreme power or authority
Federal Reserve System - answer The country's central banking
system, which is responsible for the nation's monetary policy by
regulating the supply of money and interest rates
Brain Trust - answer Many of the advisers who helped Roosevelt
during his presidential candidacy continued to aid him after he
entered the White House. A newspaperman once described the
group as "Roosevelt's Brain Trust." They were more influential than
the Cabinet.
Great Society - answer President Johnson called his version of the
Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress
passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil
rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
Legitimacy - answer the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
authority - answer the right to use power
,citizens - answer People who had the right to participate in
government
Monarchy - answer A government ruled by a king or queen
Oligarchy - answer A government ruled by a few powerful people
Aristocracy - answer A government in which power is in the hands of
a hereditary ruling class or nobility
Rule by Law - answer recognition that laws exist and all are subject
to them equally
Justian code - answer a set of laws, written by the Byzantine Empire
Justinian, that served the Byzantine Empire for hundreds of years.
Democracy - answer A political system in which the supreme power
lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
absolute power - answer complete control over someone or
something
Indirect Democracy - answer a system of government that gives
citizens the opportunity to vote for representatives who work on
their behalf
Direct Democracy - answer A form of government in which citizens
rule directly and not through representatives
,Federalist Papers - answer A collection of 85 articles written by
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name
"Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail.
Natural Law - answer A doctrine that society should be governed by
certain ethical principles that are part of nature and, as such, can
be understood by reason.
Democratic Centralism - answer The Leninist organizational
structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite.
free enterprise - answer Economic system in which individuals and
businesses are allowed to compete for profit with a minimum of
government interference
Enlightenment - answer A movement in the 18th century that
advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas
and social institutions.
centralized government - answer A government in which power is
concentrated in a central authority to which local governments are
subject
individual freedom - answer free to do whatever you want as long as
it doesnt infringe on others freedom
liberty - answer Freedom from government control
equality - answer the state of being equal, especially in status,
rights, and opportunities.
Justice - answer Respecting the rights of others and giving them
what is rightfully theirs
, John Locke - answer 17th century English philosopher who opposed
the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a
natural right to life, liberty, and property.
Karl Marx - answer 1818-1883. 19th century philosopher, political
economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and
revolutionary. Often recognized as the father of communism.
Analysis of history led to his belief that communism would replace
capitalism as it replaced feudalism. Believed in a classless society.
Aristotle - answer Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of
Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics,
ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly
influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led
him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses,
theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the
syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry.
Franklin Roosevelt - answer President of the US during Great
Depression and World War II
Lyndon B. Johnson - answer signed the civil rights act of 1964 into
law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his
agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great
society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that
provided food stamps and welfare to needy famillies. he also
created a department of housing and urban development. his most
important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid.
Machiavelli - answer Renaissance writer; formerly a politician, wrote
The Prince, a work on ethics and government, describing how rulers
maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted
the philosophy that "the end justifies the means."
final exam vocab (LATEST
UPDATED VERSION)
Unit 1 - answer
government - answer The institution through which a society makes
and enforces its public policies
Sovereignty - answer supreme power or authority
Federal Reserve System - answer The country's central banking
system, which is responsible for the nation's monetary policy by
regulating the supply of money and interest rates
Brain Trust - answer Many of the advisers who helped Roosevelt
during his presidential candidacy continued to aid him after he
entered the White House. A newspaperman once described the
group as "Roosevelt's Brain Trust." They were more influential than
the Cabinet.
Great Society - answer President Johnson called his version of the
Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress
passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil
rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
Legitimacy - answer the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
authority - answer the right to use power
,citizens - answer People who had the right to participate in
government
Monarchy - answer A government ruled by a king or queen
Oligarchy - answer A government ruled by a few powerful people
Aristocracy - answer A government in which power is in the hands of
a hereditary ruling class or nobility
Rule by Law - answer recognition that laws exist and all are subject
to them equally
Justian code - answer a set of laws, written by the Byzantine Empire
Justinian, that served the Byzantine Empire for hundreds of years.
Democracy - answer A political system in which the supreme power
lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
absolute power - answer complete control over someone or
something
Indirect Democracy - answer a system of government that gives
citizens the opportunity to vote for representatives who work on
their behalf
Direct Democracy - answer A form of government in which citizens
rule directly and not through representatives
,Federalist Papers - answer A collection of 85 articles written by
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name
"Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail.
Natural Law - answer A doctrine that society should be governed by
certain ethical principles that are part of nature and, as such, can
be understood by reason.
Democratic Centralism - answer The Leninist organizational
structure that concentrates power in the hands of the party elite.
free enterprise - answer Economic system in which individuals and
businesses are allowed to compete for profit with a minimum of
government interference
Enlightenment - answer A movement in the 18th century that
advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas
and social institutions.
centralized government - answer A government in which power is
concentrated in a central authority to which local governments are
subject
individual freedom - answer free to do whatever you want as long as
it doesnt infringe on others freedom
liberty - answer Freedom from government control
equality - answer the state of being equal, especially in status,
rights, and opportunities.
Justice - answer Respecting the rights of others and giving them
what is rightfully theirs
, John Locke - answer 17th century English philosopher who opposed
the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a
natural right to life, liberty, and property.
Karl Marx - answer 1818-1883. 19th century philosopher, political
economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and
revolutionary. Often recognized as the father of communism.
Analysis of history led to his belief that communism would replace
capitalism as it replaced feudalism. Believed in a classless society.
Aristotle - answer Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of
Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics,
ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly
influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led
him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses,
theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the
syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry.
Franklin Roosevelt - answer President of the US during Great
Depression and World War II
Lyndon B. Johnson - answer signed the civil rights act of 1964 into
law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his
agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great
society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that
provided food stamps and welfare to needy famillies. he also
created a department of housing and urban development. his most
important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid.
Machiavelli - answer Renaissance writer; formerly a politician, wrote
The Prince, a work on ethics and government, describing how rulers
maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted
the philosophy that "the end justifies the means."
