Prologue Vocabulary Quiz

A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE THE POWER RESTS IN THE HANDS OF A FEW, LAND-OWNING, NOBEL FAMILIES is called

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Polity

A FORMAL SUMMARY OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES BELIEVED ESSENTIAL TO THE PEOPLE is called

• A Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Mayflower Compact

THE NAME OF THE RELIGION FOUNDED BY JESUS is called

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Monotheism

• the Roman Catholic Church

CUSTOMS AND PRINCIPLES THAT WERE COMMON TO THE WHOLE KINGDOM AND WERE ESTABLISHED OVER TIME in England are called

• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

• Common Law

• Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

RULE OF THE PEOPLE is called

• Aristocracy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE THE CITIZENS RULE AND MAKE LAWS DIRECTLY RATHER THAN THROUGH REPRESENTATIVES is called

• A Direct Democracy

• Democracy

• Republic

• Confederation

THE BELIEF THAT MONARCHS WERE CHOSEN BY GOD AND RESPONSIBLE ONLY TO GOD is called

• Divine Right

• Dictatorship

• Authoritarianism

• Due Process of Law

THE RIGHT TO HAVE LAW WORK IN A KNOWN, ORDERLY WAY. THE KING CAN NOT WILLFULLY, OR ARBITRARILY PUNISH HIS SUBJECTS is called

• Due Process of Law

• Common Law

• Divine Right

• Enlightenment

AN INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT FROM THE 16^TH AND 17^TH CENTURIES THAT TRIED TO APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF REASON AND SCIENCE TO ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIETY is called

• The Enlightenment

• The Renaissance

• The Reformation

• The Scientific Revolution

POWER OF GOVERNMENT THAT IS DIVIDED BETWEEN A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS is called

• A Republic

• Federal System

• Confederation

• Democracy