AMERICAN HERITAGE EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What does President Oaks say about personal rights?
How does he see the balance between protecting rights
and maintaining order?
Answer:
Question:
2. How does the Constitution aim to create an American
community?
Answer:
Question:
3. Law
Answer:
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as
regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition
of penalties
Question:
4. Rights
Answer:
a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way
Question:
5. Constitution
Answer:
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a
state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
Question:
6. anarchy
Answer:
a part of the Human Predicament Cycle that includes mass disorder and violence
caused
by a failure to agree on a common means of government.
,Question:
7. aristocracy:
Answer:
form of government in which power is held by the wealthiest class.
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8. community
Answer:
a group that provides support, common interests, and a feeling of mutuality for its
members.
Question:
9. competing groups
Answer:
a part of the Human Predicament Cycle in which different groups seek ultimate
power and political control in a society.
Question:
10. demagogue
Answer:
a leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of
ordinary
people rather than through rational argument.
Question:
11. democracy
Answer:
a form of government where laws and decisions are made by the citizens.
Question:
12. Enlightenment
Answer:
philosophical movement started in seventeenth-century Europe that highlighted
the capacity of human beings to discover truth through the exercise of reason.
Question:
13. equality of result
Answer:
when societies ensure that individuals have relatively equal shares of goods or
benefits, not merely equal opportunities.
, Question:
14. founding
Answer:
a conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that benefits the
people.
Question:
15. Good Society
Answer:
a society in which everyone benefits. Provides a favorable balance between
liberty,
equality, community, prosperity, and humility.
Question:
16. government
Answer:
the authority responsible for creating and enforcing rules in a society.
Question:
17. liberty
Answer:
the state of being free from oppressive restrictions, particularly from authoritarian
organizations (including legitimate governments).
Question:
18. limited government
Answer:
a government with limited power to affect the lives of its citizens.
Question:
19. Magna Carta
Answer:
a document signed by twenty-five English barons and King John in 1215 which
limited the king's power and gave the barons some input in political decisions.
Question:
20. philosopher-king
Answer:
a ruling class envisioned by Plato in which the most virtuous and wise members
of society would hold power.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What does President Oaks say about personal rights?
How does he see the balance between protecting rights
and maintaining order?
Answer:
Question:
2. How does the Constitution aim to create an American
community?
Answer:
Question:
3. Law
Answer:
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as
regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition
of penalties
Question:
4. Rights
Answer:
a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way
Question:
5. Constitution
Answer:
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a
state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
Question:
6. anarchy
Answer:
a part of the Human Predicament Cycle that includes mass disorder and violence
caused
by a failure to agree on a common means of government.
,Question:
7. aristocracy:
Answer:
form of government in which power is held by the wealthiest class.
Question:
8. community
Answer:
a group that provides support, common interests, and a feeling of mutuality for its
members.
Question:
9. competing groups
Answer:
a part of the Human Predicament Cycle in which different groups seek ultimate
power and political control in a society.
Question:
10. demagogue
Answer:
a leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of
ordinary
people rather than through rational argument.
Question:
11. democracy
Answer:
a form of government where laws and decisions are made by the citizens.
Question:
12. Enlightenment
Answer:
philosophical movement started in seventeenth-century Europe that highlighted
the capacity of human beings to discover truth through the exercise of reason.
Question:
13. equality of result
Answer:
when societies ensure that individuals have relatively equal shares of goods or
benefits, not merely equal opportunities.
, Question:
14. founding
Answer:
a conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that benefits the
people.
Question:
15. Good Society
Answer:
a society in which everyone benefits. Provides a favorable balance between
liberty,
equality, community, prosperity, and humility.
Question:
16. government
Answer:
the authority responsible for creating and enforcing rules in a society.
Question:
17. liberty
Answer:
the state of being free from oppressive restrictions, particularly from authoritarian
organizations (including legitimate governments).
Question:
18. limited government
Answer:
a government with limited power to affect the lives of its citizens.
Question:
19. Magna Carta
Answer:
a document signed by twenty-five English barons and King John in 1215 which
limited the king's power and gave the barons some input in political decisions.
Question:
20. philosopher-king
Answer:
a ruling class envisioned by Plato in which the most virtuous and wise members
of society would hold power.
