Unit 1 Test Study Guide Be able to

Unit 1 Test Study Guide Be able to explain: 1. The purposes of government and how a government fulfills those jobs • Protect citizens • Provide public goods and services • Maintain order • Socialize young people • Regulate the economy • Federal tax system 2. Principles of government • Aristotle • Characteristics of a nation-state and give examples (territory, population, sovereignty, and legitimate government) • Theories on the origin of a state: evolutionary, force, divine right, social contract 3. Types of governments: autocracy, democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, direct and indirect democracy 4. Governing documents: Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, English Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution 5. Enlightenment: natural rights, social contract, state of nature, consent of the governed, republicanism, Hobbes, Locke, and Montesquieu 6. Characteristics of democracy: individual liberty, majority rule with minority rights, free elections, competing political parties, free enterprise, civil society, social consensus…article examples: gun debate, race and college, minimum wage, independent party 7. Declaration of Independence DBQ: 4 parts to the DOI, unalienable rights, Tiananmen Square, be able to answer questions pertaining to each document

Unit 1 Test Study Guide Be able to explain: 1. The purposes of government and how a government fulfills those jobs • Protect citizens • Provide public goods and services • Maintain order • Socialize young people • Regulate the economy • Federal tax system 2. Principles of government • Aristotle • Characteristics of a nation-state and give examples (territory, population, sovereignty, and legitimate government) • Theories on the origin of a state: evolutionary, force, divine right, social contract 3. Types of governments: autocracy, democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, direct and indirect democracy 4. Governing documents: Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, English Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution 5. Enlightenment: natural rights, social contract, state of nature, consent of the governed, republicanism, Hobbes, Locke, and Montesquieu 6. Characteristics of democracy: individual liberty, majority rule with minority rights, free elections, competing political parties, free enterprise, civil society, social consensus…article examples: gun debate, race and college, minimum wage, independent party 7. Declaration of Independence DBQ: 4 parts to the DOI, unalienable rights, Tiananmen Square, be able to answer questions pertaining to each document