US History and Government Quiz

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<p>The relationship between an individual and a state</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citizen owes loyalty to the state but is entitled to certain rights and protections from the state</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>27</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First 10 amendments to the Constitution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preamble, 7 articles, 27 amendments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Capitalism and free market</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Satisfy legal requirements, learn English, learn US government, learn US history, pass interview and test</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Three branches, separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, election cycles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ancient Greece</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The political and social organizational structure created by the ancient greeks (a city state)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Policy, politics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Isolated, strong community, political and economic independence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Oligarchy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>King or queen makes all the laws and acts as a judge, rulers inherit power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Only kings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ruling power in the hands of one person, ruler doesn't have a legal right to rule</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Many Greek tyrants were military leaders who gained support through promises</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Most were wealthy aristocrats</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All citizens share ruling power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct Democracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>direct democracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When citizens rule directly and not through representatives</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citizens elect others to represent them in government</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The town center in Athens</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A central area for the government of Athens in the acropolis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free, native born adult males if his parents were free born Athenians</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The assembly, which was made up of randomly selected citizens, met and voted on issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>an example to others because a lot of power belongs to the people and the people are obedient</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One that is versatile and graceful</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citizens couldn't be sold into slavery for debt, the role of the ecclesia was expanded, the boule was created, citizens could challenge the archon's (judge) decision to a jury of Athenian citizens, and opened the position of archon up to more classes than just the aristocrats (besides the lower class)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Council of 400 male citizens that planned what the ecclesia would discuss and ran the daily affairs of the city</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The assembly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prevent tyranny</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free, native born adult males and females if their parents were married in certain areas of Rome, children if their parents were citizens, and sons of freed slaves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was a representative democracy, so they elected representatives</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two consuls ruled and could veto each other's decisions, a consul could only rule for 2 one year terms, and the senate had to approve their decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>republic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A position that only plebians could hold, they could veto laws from the senate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The legislative body of Ancient Rome consisting of patricians who served for life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>wealthy landowners</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>12 tables</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Government by the authority of the people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The city of Mytilene revolted against Athens' rule</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To execute every Mytilenean man and sell every Mytilenean woman and child into slavery</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They reconsidered and decided to just execute the leaders of the revolt, and the ship they sent to carry the news arrived before the original punishment was carried out but after it was announced</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sometimes decisions are based on emotion and not logic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>US has an elected officials, Athens has randomly picked officials, Athenian citizens have to be over 18, free, male, and have free Athenian parents, US citizens have to be born in the US or complete the citizenship process, Athens was a direct democracy, the US is a representative democracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A shepherd names Gyges gets a ring that makes him invisible, so using the ring, he seduces a queen, kills the king, and takes over the kingdom</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People only practice justice because they're scared of being punished</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>reason, spirit, appetite</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rulers-reason, spirit-warriors, appetite-citizens</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Socrates, Plato, Aristotle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Asking questions about everything as if he knew nothing to expose flaws in arguments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To find definitions of abstract qualities such as justice and virtue</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Latins</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Greeks, 750-600 BC</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roman natives that were skilled metalworkers and engineers, they influenced Rome's development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citizens are in power and are entitled to vote, the power is exercised by elected officials and representatives, representatives are responsible to the citizens, and they govern according to the law</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>12 tables</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2 consuls, 1 year terms, executives of the army and government</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Senate, centuriate assembly, tribal assembly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All citizen-soldiers, life long term, selects consuls and praetors, makes laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citizens grouped based on location, life long term, elects tribunes, makes laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Praetors, 8 judges chosen for 1 year, two oversee criminal and civil courts, the rest govern provinces</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Series of 3 wars between Rome and Carthage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>an official who had ultimate power for 6 months elected in times of crisis, chosen by consuls, elected by senate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>military unit of 5,000 infantry; supported by cavalry</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A plot of land</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caesar, Pompey, Crassus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Consul, governor of Gaul, dictator, dictator for life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He granted citizenship to many people in the provinces, expanded the senate, increased pay for soldiers, and created jobs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hannibal, Carthage's military leader, led his army around Italy as a sneak attack, which worked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They burned Carthage and sold the population into slavery</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>France</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>stabbed to death in the senate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Marc Antony, Lepidus, Octavian (Caesar Augustus, Caesars nephew)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cleopatra</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roman peace</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>27 BC - 180 AD</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Athenian democracy is the best form of government because most participate and follow the rules out of mutual respect</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A gathering of Athenian citizens where they discussed and voted on issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of 9 leaders from rich families chosen at the assembly that ruled Athens for 1 year</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Draco, the laws were unfair to poor people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The people have too much freedom, and because what you want and need are different, people are inclined to make bad decisions because they get confused</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is too much wealth in the hands of a small amount of people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The people don't have enough freedom</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It promotes factionalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of intelligent people lead (kind of an oligarchy)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You should examine every aspect of your life</p> Signup and view all the answers