Civics Semester Exam Review

What is the "State of Nature" according to Hobbes?

• Agreement between people and their government
• Everyone had a right to everything
• People are born with a tabula rasa - blank slate
• Life, Liberty and Property

What was the name of Thomas Hobbes's book on government?

• Behemoth
• Gargantua
• Leviathan
• Colossus

According to Hobbes, people agreed to give up some __________________ in exchange for __________________ as part of the social contract.

• rights and power / protection
• food and shelter / weapons
• security and protection / freedom
• money / goods and services

Hobbes believed that a single __________, or ruler, should have complete authority over the people.

• emperor
• magnate
• overlord
• sovereign

John Locke's thinking influenced what American founder?

• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Jefferson

According to Locke, all humans share a set of __________.

•  internal organs
• natural rights
• hopes and dreams
• traits and motivations

When a king or queen rules the country

• Oilarchy

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

• Autocracy

Where one leader has absolute control over citizens lives, usually through force.

• Socialism

• Propaganda

• Autocracy

• Dictatorship

When citizens hold the political power

• Democracy

• Democrats

• Communism

• Rep Democracy

No representatives and citizens are directly involved in the day to day work of governing the country

• Communism

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Direct Democracy