American Heritage BYU Final
exam with correct answers
2025/2026
Sovereignty - correct answersultimate political power
legitimacy - correct answersruling by a sanction rather than stark necessity
Founding - correct answersa conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that
benefits the people
Good Society - correct answersreasonably stable and prosperous society without an oppressive
tyranny
Human Predicament Cycle - correct answerstyranny to revolution to anarchy to competing
groups to tyranny
Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare - correct answersmust balance these three things in a
government, different groups of thinkers have different ideas on how to do it
"Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne - correct answersCore Values of American Society
Woodard - correct answersIndividual vs community
, Justice Chapter 1 - correct answersdoing the right thing
John Calvin - correct answersgreatly influenced Puritan belief, taught that salvation came
through grace, predestination
Puritans - correct answerswanted to reform Church of England, shaped early America's
character
The Christian Calling - correct answerspeople should pursue a "calling" where they must work
hard, be wise
Moral Self-Governance - correct answersPeople should live a righteous life on their own
God's Elect - correct answersGod has already chosen those who will be saved, elect should build
a holy community
Corporate Community - correct answerscolonial settlements with economic or financial
purposes
Covenant Community - correct answerscolonial settlements based on religious or moral values
City upon a Hill - correct answersa society governed by civil liberty that would be an example to
the world
Civil Liberty - correct answersMen are free to do what is good, just, and honest
Natural Liberty - correct answersMen are free to do what they please, no regard for morals
exam with correct answers
2025/2026
Sovereignty - correct answersultimate political power
legitimacy - correct answersruling by a sanction rather than stark necessity
Founding - correct answersa conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that
benefits the people
Good Society - correct answersreasonably stable and prosperous society without an oppressive
tyranny
Human Predicament Cycle - correct answerstyranny to revolution to anarchy to competing
groups to tyranny
Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare - correct answersmust balance these three things in a
government, different groups of thinkers have different ideas on how to do it
"Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne - correct answersCore Values of American Society
Woodard - correct answersIndividual vs community
, Justice Chapter 1 - correct answersdoing the right thing
John Calvin - correct answersgreatly influenced Puritan belief, taught that salvation came
through grace, predestination
Puritans - correct answerswanted to reform Church of England, shaped early America's
character
The Christian Calling - correct answerspeople should pursue a "calling" where they must work
hard, be wise
Moral Self-Governance - correct answersPeople should live a righteous life on their own
God's Elect - correct answersGod has already chosen those who will be saved, elect should build
a holy community
Corporate Community - correct answerscolonial settlements with economic or financial
purposes
Covenant Community - correct answerscolonial settlements based on religious or moral values
City upon a Hill - correct answersa society governed by civil liberty that would be an example to
the world
Civil Liberty - correct answersMen are free to do what is good, just, and honest
Natural Liberty - correct answersMen are free to do what they please, no regard for morals
