5-1 Mid Term Review Questions 2011-12

Mid-term review questions: Here is your chance to study on-line together! You may have one page of handwritten notes to reference on the midterm.
Chapters 1-8

1. Give examples of some unique aspects of democracy.
2. What is a republic?
3. What are the "natural laws" that Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers believed the world was governed by?
4. Know Judeo- Christian traditions.
5. How would a tyrant be described in ancient Greece?
6. What important book did the philosopher Astistotle write concerning the structure and purpose of the state? What are some key points?
7. What was the European Enlightenment about?
8. Where does a governments authority come from according to the Declaration of Independence and why?
9. Compare the U.S. Bill of Rights to the Magna Carta.
10. Describe the purpose of a representative government according to the English Bill of Rights.
11. Where did the expectation for a representative government come from with the colonists?
12. What are the "natural rights" according to the French Declaration?
13. By guaranteeing individual freedoms, what is the Bill of Rights seeking to protect citizens from?
14. Why would unalienable rights be important to citizens?
15. Discuss the main causes of the French Revolution?
16. Discuss the social classes that existed in pre-Revolutionary France.
17. Who led the "Reign of Terror" in France? Could something like that happen today?
18. What did the National Assembly seek to achieve in revolutionary France?
19. What conditions led to Napoleon Bonaparte taking power?
20. Describe the impact of the Revolutions of 1848.
21.     What are the concepts from Athens that is central to Western political though?

22.    What are the governmental views of Aristotle?

23.    What was Plato’s ideal society, and who should control?

24.    How does Greco-Roman beliefs differ from Jewish and Christian?

25.    Understand the concepts of the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independance:

a.      separation of powers b.  natural rightsm c.  rights of the people