AMERICAN HERITAGE BYU EXAM 1 PEOPLE
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Thomas Hobbes
Answer:
believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority
Leviathan: We need a ruler or else people will disagree and it will result in anarchy
Question:
2. Thomas Jefferson
Answer:
Declaration of Independence with 4 Parts
1. Intro
2. Theoretical Core
3.
Question:
3. Thomas Moore
Answer:
1516 wrote Utopia about an imaginary land inhabited by a peace-loving people,
an ideal place. In Utopia, greed, corruption, war, and crime had been weeded
out.
Question:
4. Thomas Paine
Answer:
Common Sense: Convinces loyalists into revolution, anarchy is stupid, unity plus
action
Crisis: Boost morale about sacrificing for the country
Question:
5. Roger Williams
Answer:
Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished to
Rhode Island
Bloody Tenant: Jesus was Prince of Peace, we CANNOT force people to believe
anything
Civil power lies with the people
LIBERTY!
, Question:
6. John Cotton
Answer:
ORDERED LIBERTY
If you give any people any power, they will abuse it
Democracy is not great because only 'good' citizens should vote
Limited speech
Limit the power, God is the ultimate power
Would argue more for civil liberty
Question:
7. Cotton Mather
Answer:
Puritian
Two callings:
Follow God and His commandments
Get a JOB! Contributing member of society (ex: if ur a street sweeper, be the BEST
street sweeper)
Choose wisely with your occupation
If you are an 'elect' person you need to do your job well
Question:
8. John Winthrop
Answer:
Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill"
We need to be bound together in brotherly love
Body of Christ analogy
Mayflower compact: example of social Contract
A little Speech on Liberty: authority is necessary for common good, individual
actions should contribute to group well being
Question:
9. David Hume
Answer:
Draining of the Marsh
Collective action problem: group would do better if everyone worked, but they
can't cooperate
Solutions
Selective incentives
Political Entreprenuer
A central organizer who is respected and can influence people
Ideologies/Belief Systems
Coercion
Force
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Thomas Hobbes
Answer:
believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority
Leviathan: We need a ruler or else people will disagree and it will result in anarchy
Question:
2. Thomas Jefferson
Answer:
Declaration of Independence with 4 Parts
1. Intro
2. Theoretical Core
3.
Question:
3. Thomas Moore
Answer:
1516 wrote Utopia about an imaginary land inhabited by a peace-loving people,
an ideal place. In Utopia, greed, corruption, war, and crime had been weeded
out.
Question:
4. Thomas Paine
Answer:
Common Sense: Convinces loyalists into revolution, anarchy is stupid, unity plus
action
Crisis: Boost morale about sacrificing for the country
Question:
5. Roger Williams
Answer:
Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished to
Rhode Island
Bloody Tenant: Jesus was Prince of Peace, we CANNOT force people to believe
anything
Civil power lies with the people
LIBERTY!
, Question:
6. John Cotton
Answer:
ORDERED LIBERTY
If you give any people any power, they will abuse it
Democracy is not great because only 'good' citizens should vote
Limited speech
Limit the power, God is the ultimate power
Would argue more for civil liberty
Question:
7. Cotton Mather
Answer:
Puritian
Two callings:
Follow God and His commandments
Get a JOB! Contributing member of society (ex: if ur a street sweeper, be the BEST
street sweeper)
Choose wisely with your occupation
If you are an 'elect' person you need to do your job well
Question:
8. John Winthrop
Answer:
Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of "City upon a hill"
We need to be bound together in brotherly love
Body of Christ analogy
Mayflower compact: example of social Contract
A little Speech on Liberty: authority is necessary for common good, individual
actions should contribute to group well being
Question:
9. David Hume
Answer:
Draining of the Marsh
Collective action problem: group would do better if everyone worked, but they
can't cooperate
Solutions
Selective incentives
Political Entreprenuer
A central organizer who is respected and can influence people
Ideologies/Belief Systems
Coercion
Force
