Unit 2 Pre-Test

What is the Evolutionary Theory?

• a period of time when people developed new ideas about peoples' basic rights, levels of control, etc.

• Government came about from a voluntary act of people wanting to work together for a common purpose

• Native American alliance of tribes in the northeastern United States.

• This theory is considered to be more natural. Starts as a small family with a Patriarch or Matriarch and grows

What is the Force Theory?

• Groups of people believed that their ruler was descended from God or gods or Chosen by God or gods

• A Representative Legislative body in England.

• Document that severely limited the king's power; No longer could the English monarch collect taxes without parliament's consent, imprison people without just cause, etc.

• All people of an area are brought under control for a common purpose; Put under the authority of one person or group

What is the Divine Right Theory?

• All people of an area are brought under control for a common purpose; Put under the authority of one person or group

• Groups of people believed that their ruler was descended from God or gods or Chosen by God or gods

• Government came about from a voluntary act of people wanting to work together for a common purpose

• This theory is considered to be more natural. Starts as a small family with a Patriarch or Matriarch and grows

What is the Social Contract Theory?

• Government came about from a voluntary act of people wanting to work together for a common purpose

• Native American alliance of tribes in the northeastern United States.

• Everyone had a right to everything. In order to get what they wanted, people would always be at war with everyone else

• This theory is considered to be more natural. Starts as a small family with a Patriarch or Matriarch and grows

What is the Enlightenment?

• a period of time when people developed new ideas about peoples' basic rights, levels of control, etc.

• Government came about from a voluntary act of people wanting to work together for a common purpose

• Groups of people believed that their ruler was descended from God or gods or Chosen by God or gods

• This theory is considered to be more natural. Starts as a small family with a Patriarch or Matriarch and grows

Who was the first to discuss social contract?

• All people of an area are brought under control for a common purpose; Put under the authority of one person or group

• blank slate (John Locke)

• a period of time when people developed new ideas about peoples' basic rights, levels of control, etc.

• Hobbes

Tabula Rasa

• Hobbes

• blank slate (John Locke)

• Document that provided the basis for the 4 principles of limited government, individual rights, rule of law, and shared powers

• Documents that granted rights to the Virginia Company and settlers coming to the New World

Separation of Powers

• The government was divided into parts, and each part had its own purpose. Montesquieu called this...

• Document that provided the basis for the 4 principles of limited government, individual rights, rule of law, and shared powers

• Everyone had a right to everything. In order to get what they wanted, people would always be at war with everyone else

• Government came about from a voluntary act of people wanting to work together for a common purpose

Checks and Balances

• Document that severely limited the king's power; No longer could the English monarch collect taxes without parliament's consent, imprison people without just cause, etc.

• Montesquieu thought that each branch of government had the ability to limit others so nobody had too much power. This is

• Native American alliance of tribes in the northeastern United States.

• Documents that granted rights to the Virginia Company and settlers coming to the New World

State of Nature

• Everyone had a right to everything. In order to get what they wanted, people would always be at war with everyone else

• a period of time when people developed new ideas about peoples' basic rights, levels of control, etc.

• All people of an area are brought under control for a common purpose; Put under the authority of one person or group

• Groups of people believed that their ruler was descended from God or gods or Chosen by God or gods