American Heritage Final | BYU
Comprehensive Study Guide & Key
Concepts
Progressive amendments are ______ - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----16-21
Winthrop is compared to____________ - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Andrew
Carnegie
Hoover had ___________________ and wanted ___________ compared
to________. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Negative liberty, moderation, FDR
What are the Three Founding Moments (changed gov't) and who said it? - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----1. Philadelphia convention/constitution
,2. Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments
3. New deal
Bruce Ackerman
What Social Classes Owe Each Other: By Sumner - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----
The forgotten man, according to Sumner's definition, is someone looking for a
chance to make it on his own -- and who the government can help most by
protecting economic freedom, providing a stable currency, and limiting the
burden of taxation.
Rugged Individualism: By Herbert Hoover - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----More
negative freedom than FDR, liberties same otherwise become like a tyranny
The Gospel of Wealth
By Andrew Carnegie - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----1. Invest
2. Give it to children
3. Spend on behalf of the public good, while alive. (Best option)
- He argued that the affluent had a unique responsibility to be philanthropic. In
other words, the rich should devote themselves to distributing their wealth
responsibly to benefit society while they are still alive. He famously ends saying,
'The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.'
The Golden Age of the Middle Class - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Baby boom area
so first time in a while that people had leisure time.
,Talked about GI Bill: Paid for veterans to go to college and get a degree.
Letter from Birmingham Jail by MLK Jr. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Remember 4
steps to non-violent campaign.
1. Collect facts to determine whether injustices exist.
2. Negotiations
3. Self-purification
4. Direct Action (non-violent)
Also remember Just/Unjust Laws (We should not obey unfair laws)
*Must break law 1. openly, 2. lovely and 3. accept consequences.*
New Freedom - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Constitution is an evolving thing-
needs to adapt to modern needs, "gov't is not a machine but a living thing." -
Woodrow Wilson
Plessy vs. Ferguson - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Took place in 1896 (Long time
before civil rights movement)
Set a precedent for civil rights movement
Plessy was 1/8 black, kicked off an all-white train, took it to Supreme Court and
they ruled that separate but equal was ok.
(However Justice Harlan thought this would cause problems later on.)
Los Angeles Club - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Two problems are political
machines and large corporations.
, Sandel - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Chapter 9- Moral Individualism
Focusing on yourself
Kant and Rawls favored this (believed that the right is prior to the good)
Different from Aristotle who believed your religious and moral beliefs should
affect your actions
Moral Responsibility - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Natural duties-universal, don't
require consent, be respectful towards everybody else
Voluntary obligations-particular, require consent, anything you give your consent
to helping people
Obligations of solidarity-particular but don't require consent (Sandel likes this, ex.
like helping the poor)
Chapter 10-The Inspired Constitution - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Some parts of
Constitution are divinely inspired (new ideas)
Dealing with Factions - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----1. Can't eliminate causes
2. Control effects (extended republic-no faction can create a majority)(Like crabs
in a bucket)
3. Separation of powers (each branch has a specific job)
4. Checks and balances
Comprehensive Study Guide & Key
Concepts
Progressive amendments are ______ - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----16-21
Winthrop is compared to____________ - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Andrew
Carnegie
Hoover had ___________________ and wanted ___________ compared
to________. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Negative liberty, moderation, FDR
What are the Three Founding Moments (changed gov't) and who said it? - ---
✔✔✔ANSWER----1. Philadelphia convention/constitution
,2. Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments
3. New deal
Bruce Ackerman
What Social Classes Owe Each Other: By Sumner - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----
The forgotten man, according to Sumner's definition, is someone looking for a
chance to make it on his own -- and who the government can help most by
protecting economic freedom, providing a stable currency, and limiting the
burden of taxation.
Rugged Individualism: By Herbert Hoover - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----More
negative freedom than FDR, liberties same otherwise become like a tyranny
The Gospel of Wealth
By Andrew Carnegie - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----1. Invest
2. Give it to children
3. Spend on behalf of the public good, while alive. (Best option)
- He argued that the affluent had a unique responsibility to be philanthropic. In
other words, the rich should devote themselves to distributing their wealth
responsibly to benefit society while they are still alive. He famously ends saying,
'The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.'
The Golden Age of the Middle Class - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Baby boom area
so first time in a while that people had leisure time.
,Talked about GI Bill: Paid for veterans to go to college and get a degree.
Letter from Birmingham Jail by MLK Jr. - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Remember 4
steps to non-violent campaign.
1. Collect facts to determine whether injustices exist.
2. Negotiations
3. Self-purification
4. Direct Action (non-violent)
Also remember Just/Unjust Laws (We should not obey unfair laws)
*Must break law 1. openly, 2. lovely and 3. accept consequences.*
New Freedom - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Constitution is an evolving thing-
needs to adapt to modern needs, "gov't is not a machine but a living thing." -
Woodrow Wilson
Plessy vs. Ferguson - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Took place in 1896 (Long time
before civil rights movement)
Set a precedent for civil rights movement
Plessy was 1/8 black, kicked off an all-white train, took it to Supreme Court and
they ruled that separate but equal was ok.
(However Justice Harlan thought this would cause problems later on.)
Los Angeles Club - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Two problems are political
machines and large corporations.
, Sandel - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Chapter 9- Moral Individualism
Focusing on yourself
Kant and Rawls favored this (believed that the right is prior to the good)
Different from Aristotle who believed your religious and moral beliefs should
affect your actions
Moral Responsibility - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Natural duties-universal, don't
require consent, be respectful towards everybody else
Voluntary obligations-particular, require consent, anything you give your consent
to helping people
Obligations of solidarity-particular but don't require consent (Sandel likes this, ex.
like helping the poor)
Chapter 10-The Inspired Constitution - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Some parts of
Constitution are divinely inspired (new ideas)
Dealing with Factions - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----1. Can't eliminate causes
2. Control effects (extended republic-no faction can create a majority)(Like crabs
in a bucket)
3. Separation of powers (each branch has a specific job)
4. Checks and balances
