AMERICAN HERITAGE EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Government
Answer:
a social structure that allows participating individuals some sense of belonging,
safety, and or treatment
Question:
2. Human beings want what 3 things?
Answer:
order, security, and freedom
Question:
3. Problem of Government
Answer:
government's capacity to provide great benefits to society but also to do great
harm; "how can we enjoy the benefits of government without incurring its
dreadful costs?"
Question:
4. Founding
Answer:
a conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that benefits the
people (includes 5 elements)
Question:
5. 5 elements of a Founding
Answer:
1. an outline of government
2. a body of law
3. definitions of citizenship
4. modes of participation
5. some claim of divine approval
,Question:
6. A true founding must...and founding rest on what 3
things?
Answer:
address the problem of government and create reciprocal benefits
rests on ideas, beliefs, and values that are widely shared
Question:
7. The US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of
Independence set forth what 6 new things ?
Answer:
1. new theory of statehood
2. new concept of rights
3. new design of government
4. a new method of federation
5. a new form of political interaction
6. a new approach to political economy
Question:
8. The Fundamental principle of the American Founding
Answer:
the idea of government by the consent of the governed
Question:
9. Heritage
Answer:
the traditions, beliefs, principles, events, etc. that a society inherits or chooses to
retain from the past
Question:
10. Republic
Answer:
(from the Latin res publica) the "public thing"; when citizens of the political state
govern themselves rather than submit to a monarch, despot, or other autocratic
ruler
Question:
11. Sovereignty
Answer:
ultimate political power; having the final say
if a political entity lacks sovereignty, it is not a full-fledged nation
, Question:
12. The Human Predicament
Answer:
the cycle from tyranny to revolution to anarchy to competing factions, arising out
of government's capacity to do great harm
Question:
13. Tyranny
Answer:
1st part of the human predicament cycle; absolute power centralized in a person
or small group, resulting in oppression of ordinary people (the organized rule of
will)
Question:
14. Revolution
Answer:
2nd part of the human predicament cycle; an uprising to remove a tyrant from
power
Question:
15. Anarchy
Answer:
3rd part of the human predicament cycle; mass disorder and violence caused by
a failure to agree on a common means of government (flipside of tyranny);
chaotic expression of individual will
Question:
16. Competing Factions
Answer:
4th part of the human predicament cycle; groups that, in a state of anarchy, fight
for supreme power and control
Question:
17. The Bill of Rights
Answer:
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, intended to protect individual &
state rights; added to the Constitution in response to anti-federalist concerns
about the excessive power of the national government
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Government
Answer:
a social structure that allows participating individuals some sense of belonging,
safety, and or treatment
Question:
2. Human beings want what 3 things?
Answer:
order, security, and freedom
Question:
3. Problem of Government
Answer:
government's capacity to provide great benefits to society but also to do great
harm; "how can we enjoy the benefits of government without incurring its
dreadful costs?"
Question:
4. Founding
Answer:
a conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that benefits the
people (includes 5 elements)
Question:
5. 5 elements of a Founding
Answer:
1. an outline of government
2. a body of law
3. definitions of citizenship
4. modes of participation
5. some claim of divine approval
,Question:
6. A true founding must...and founding rest on what 3
things?
Answer:
address the problem of government and create reciprocal benefits
rests on ideas, beliefs, and values that are widely shared
Question:
7. The US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of
Independence set forth what 6 new things ?
Answer:
1. new theory of statehood
2. new concept of rights
3. new design of government
4. a new method of federation
5. a new form of political interaction
6. a new approach to political economy
Question:
8. The Fundamental principle of the American Founding
Answer:
the idea of government by the consent of the governed
Question:
9. Heritage
Answer:
the traditions, beliefs, principles, events, etc. that a society inherits or chooses to
retain from the past
Question:
10. Republic
Answer:
(from the Latin res publica) the "public thing"; when citizens of the political state
govern themselves rather than submit to a monarch, despot, or other autocratic
ruler
Question:
11. Sovereignty
Answer:
ultimate political power; having the final say
if a political entity lacks sovereignty, it is not a full-fledged nation
, Question:
12. The Human Predicament
Answer:
the cycle from tyranny to revolution to anarchy to competing factions, arising out
of government's capacity to do great harm
Question:
13. Tyranny
Answer:
1st part of the human predicament cycle; absolute power centralized in a person
or small group, resulting in oppression of ordinary people (the organized rule of
will)
Question:
14. Revolution
Answer:
2nd part of the human predicament cycle; an uprising to remove a tyrant from
power
Question:
15. Anarchy
Answer:
3rd part of the human predicament cycle; mass disorder and violence caused by
a failure to agree on a common means of government (flipside of tyranny);
chaotic expression of individual will
Question:
16. Competing Factions
Answer:
4th part of the human predicament cycle; groups that, in a state of anarchy, fight
for supreme power and control
Question:
17. The Bill of Rights
Answer:
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, intended to protect individual &
state rights; added to the Constitution in response to anti-federalist concerns
about the excessive power of the national government
