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PACIFIC CHARTER INSTITUTE
Teacher Generated Workbook
CP Government
By: Janelle Martinez, Art Price, Cheryl Siu, and April Todd 2016
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Unit 1 Vocabulary Assignment 1B alien
resident alien
non-resident alien
enemy alien
amnesty
citizenship
private law
naturalization
collective naturalization
jus soli
jus sanguinis
expatriation
denaturalization
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Assignment 1D
Civics (History and Government) Questions for the Naturalization Test The 100 civics (history and government) questions and answers for the naturalization test are listed below. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT A: Principles of American Democracy 1. What is the supreme law of the land? 2. What does the Constitution do? 3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? 4. What is an amendment? 5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? 6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?* 7. How many amendments does the Constitution have? 8. What did the Declaration of Independence do? 9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? 10. What is freedom of religion? 11. What is the economic system in the United States?* 12. What is the “rule of law”? B: System of Government 13. Name one branch or part of the government.* 14. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? 15. Who is in charge of the executive branch? 16. Who makes federal laws? 17. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?* 18. How many U.S. Senators are there? 19. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years? 20. Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators now?* 21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members? 22. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years? 23. Name your U.S. Representative. 24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
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25. Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? 26. We elect a President for how many years? 27. In what month do we vote for President?* 28.What is the name of the President of the United States now?* 29. What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now? 30. If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President? 31. If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? 32. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military? 33. Who signs bills to become laws? 34. Who vetoes bills? 35. What does the President’s Cabinet do? 36. What are two Cabinet-level positions? 37. What does the judicial branch do? 38. What is the highest court in the United States? 39. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? 40. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now? 41. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one of those powers? 42. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 43. Who is the Governor of your state now? 44. What is the capital of your state?* 45. What are the two major political parties in the United States?* 46. What is the political party of the President now? 47. What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now? C: Rights and Responsibilities 48. There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them. 49. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?* 50. Name one right only for United States citizens. 51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States? 52. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
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53. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen? 54. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?* 55. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy? 56. When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?* 57. When must all men register for the Selective Service?
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Assignment 1E
AMERICAN HISTORY A: Colonial Period and Independence 58. What is one reason colonists came to America? 59. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? 60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves? 61. Why did the colonists fight the British? 62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? 63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? 64. There were 13 original states. Name three . 65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention? . 66. When was the Constitution written? 67. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers. 68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? 69. Who is the “Father of Our Country”? 70. Who was the first President?* B: 1800s 71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? 72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s. 73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. 74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War. 75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?* 76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? 77. What did Susan B. Anthony do? C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information 78. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.* 79. Who was President during World War I? 80. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II? 81. Who did the United States fight in World War II? 82. Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
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83. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States? 84. What movement tried to end racial discrimination? 85. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?* 86. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States? 87. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States. INTEGRATED CIVICS A: Geography 88. Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States. 89. What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States? 90. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? 91. Name one U.S. territory. 92. Name one state that borders Canada. 93. Name one state that borders Mexico. 94. What is the capital of the United States?* 95. Where is the Statue of Liberty?* B: Symbols 96. Why does the flag have 13 stripes? 97. Why does the flag have 50 stars?* 98. What is the name of the National Anthem? 99. When do we celebrate Independence Day? 100. Name two National Holidays.
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Name: _____________________ Week: _____ Teacher:_______________
CURRENT EVENTS WORKSHEET
ASSIGNMENT 2C
Directions: Find an article either in the newspaper or online from a newspaper source, Time.com, The Sacramento Bee, USA Today, The New York Times, etc., or any other reputable national or local source. Read the article and fill out the statements or answer the questions below. You may not use articles on Entertainment/Gossip or Sports. Please find and read about important issues in our world today. Because this is a current events assignment you are to choose an article that is no more than a month old from when the assignment is given. Read the Rubric at the end of the worksheet to complete all the requirements for this assignment. Attach the article to the worksheet.
Topic of Article: _____________________________________________________________________
Title of Article: ______________________________________________________________________
Source: _____________________________________________________________________________
WHO is this article about? ____________________________________________________________
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WHAT is this story about? List four important facts from your article.
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3. _________________________________________________________________________________
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WHEN did this story take place?
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WHERE is this event or issue occurring? (Specify city, country, region, etc.)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________WHY is this story important?
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CONNECT to the article. What does it have to do with you? Can it be connected to anything we learned or are learning about in class? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
Grading will be based on the following rubric:
4 – Entire Current Event assignment displays the following requirements for each
question/statement above:
Demonstrates thoughtfulness, preparation, and accuracy.
Reflects real understanding of the story and the issues.
Follows directions.
Is complete, neat, and provides a deep analysis connected to the class.
Asks and answers a provocative (for discussion purposes) question. 3 – Current Event assignment is complete, but does not fully explore or analyze the topic. 2 – Current Event assignment lacks 3 of the requirements, but does not fully explore or analyze
the topic. 1 – Current Event assignment lacks 4 of the requirements or is poorly analyzed.
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Name: _____________________ Week: _____ Teacher:_______________
CURRENT EVENTS WORKSHEET
ASSIGNMENT 2C
Directions: Find an article either in the newspaper or online from a newspaper source, Time.com, The Sacramento Bee, USA Today, The New York Times, etc., or any other reputable national or local source. Read the article and fill out the statements or answer the questions below. You may not use articles on Entertainment/Gossip or Sports. Please find and read about important issues in our world today. Because this is a current events assignment you are to choose an article that is no more than a month old from when the assignment is given. Read the Rubric at the end of the worksheet to complete all the requirements for this assignment. Attach the article to the worksheet.
Topic of Article: _____________________________________________________________________
Title of Article: ______________________________________________________________________
Source: _____________________________________________________________________________
WHO is this article about? ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT is this story about? List four important facts from your article.
1. _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
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WHEN did this story take place?
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WHERE is this event or issue occurring? (Specify city, country, region, etc.)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHY is this story important? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CONNECT to the article. What does it have to do with you? Can it be connected to anything we learned or are learning about in class? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
Grading will be based on the following rubric:
4 – Entire Current Event assignment displays the following requirements for each
question/statement above:
Demonstrates thoughtfulness, preparation, and accuracy. Reflects real understanding of the story and the issues.
Follows directions.
Is complete, neat, and provides a deep analysis connected to the class.
Asks and answers a provocative (for discussion purposes) question.
3 – Current Event assignment is complete, but does not fully explore or analyze the topic. 2 – Current Event assignment lacks 3 of the requirements, but does not fully explore or analyze
the topic. 1 – Current Event assignment lacks 4 of the requirements or is poorly analyzed.
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Name: ____________________
Assignment 3A
KWL Chart
KNOW WANT TO KNOW LEARNED
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Week 6 Vocabulary Assignment 6B Define the following words or terms. Check the box for K if you know that word (and then you can write your own definition) H if you have heard of the word, or N if you have never heard of that word.
K H N DEFINITION Compensation
presidential succession
Elector
electoral vote
electoral college
cabinet
Leak
Robert Weaver
Frances Perkins
central clearance
national security advisor
press secretary
EOP
OMB
NSC
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Assignment 6D
Ranking the Presidents What makes a President great? Why is Abraham Lincoln consistently ranked number one and
the President who came after him, Andrew Johnson, consistently ranked in the bottom three?
When ranking Presidents we typically look at four things:
1. Wars and disputes that occurred during the President’s term of office and how he
handled them.
2. Social Issues, social changes and how the President address them.
3. A strong leader with a strong moral and ethical character.
4. Major crisis and the President’s response to said crisis.
Using the handout provided rank our four most modern Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama
After completing the evaluation forms answer the following questions on a separate piece of
paper.
1. Assign one of the following terms: Great, Near Great, High Average, Average, Below
Average or Failure to each President.
2. Support your ranking with information from your chart.
3. How do you think each President fits with past Presidents?
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Assignment 6D
Ranking the Presidents George H.W. Bush
List the major Wars and Disputes during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Wars and Disputes Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)= List the major Social issue that occurred during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Social Issues Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)=
Bill Clinton
List the major Wars and Disputes during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Wars and Disputes Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)= List the major Social issue that occurred during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Social Issues Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)=
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George W. Bush
List the major Wars and Disputes during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Wars and Disputes Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)= List the major Social issue that occurred during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Social Issues Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)=
Barack Obama
List the major Wars and Disputes during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Wars and Disputes Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)= List the major Social issue that occurred during the Presidents term of office: Analyze the Presidents response and it's effectiveness: Social Issues Rating (1 being lowest:5 Being Highest)=
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Assignment 7B Judging the Judges
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Assignment 9B Vocabulary
Define the following words or terms. Check the box for K if you know that word (and then you can write your own definition) H if you have heard of the word, or N if you have never heard of that word.
K H N DEFINITION public utility
mandate
criminal case
initiative
civil case
item veto
regressive tax
intergovernmental revenue
bicameral
workers’ compensation
county
municipality
special district
zoning
market value
real property
infrastructure
revitalization
gentrification
metropolitan government
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Assignment 9E
Study Guide for American Government Midterm Test Terms to know: Naturalization Expatriation Jus soli Jus sanguinis Denaturalization Collective naturalization Bill of rights Constitution Preamble Amendment Prior restraint Sequester Gag order Election day Propaganda Suffrage Voting rights act Cabinet Electoral college Amendments to know: All of them!! Citizenship Test Know all of the answers to it – there will be 20 questions from it on the midterm Also know: Presidential term limits Presidential succession Presidential duties Qualifications for president, senators, and representatives District court and their jurisdiction Appellate Court and their jurisdiction Responsibilities of local governments Responsibilities of state governments Structure of State governments (3 branches) Federal courts and their jurisdiction The three branches of government and their duties Your duties as an American citizen
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Assignment 14E Advantages and Disadvantages of 3 types of Government: Federal Confederal Unitary
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15A How Government Philosophies affect Policy: Religious
Policies Economic Policies
Social Welfare Policies
Human Rights Practices
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Assignment 15B
A Brief History of Religion
For much of the first epoch of history, religion had taken the form of civic religion following earlier cults of nature worship. The Mesopotamian city-states worshiped their local gods in the shape of a clay statue housed in the temple. The Greeks and Roman continued to observe rituals in honor of the gods. Pallas Athena, patroness of Athens, was worshiped in the Parthenon. The Roman emperor was Pontifex Maximus, leader of Rome’s civic religion. He himself was also worshipped as a god. It was the requirement of emperor worship which most bothered Christians living in Rome.
The second civilization was not based upon this kind of religion but upon another kind ultimately derived from philosophy. A wave of new thinking swept through civilizations of the Old World during the first millennium B.C. associated with such philosophers and spiritual leaders as Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster, Jeremiah, and Pythagoras. From their teachings came new philosophies and religions. Some philosophers, such as Confucius, Zoroaster, and Plato, brought a moral critique to government. Their approach was to try to reform government as advisors to the king. Others challenged government as outsiders. Jeremiah, for instance, predicted that Jerusalem would fall to the Babylonians; he was jailed for expressing that belief. Socrates was convicted of impiety with respect to the civic religion of Athens and put to death. Jesus was crucified on order of Pontius Pilate, Roman proconsul in Judaea. Choosing between royal power and truth, Buddha renounced the throne of a Nepalese principality to pursue truth.
History records that, after their deaths, the followers of Jesus and Buddha formed ideological communities devoted to perpetuating and fulfilling the ideas of their departed leader. Buddhism inclined more toward monastic communities; Christianity, toward the ecclesiastical structure of the church. The core of these communities were persons who, like philosophers, had given up worldly occupations and married life to pursue a particular set of ideas. Buddha taught the path to Enlightenment. Jesus preached the coming Kingdom of God. Both concepts are roughly related to what we would call “Heaven”, a spiritual realm for good persons after death. Followers of those religions were renouncing the evil world of physical pleasures and power politics. Yet they also had to operate in that world. Their institutional fortunes were made when powerful monarchs sponsored their religion. The Indian emperor Asoka sponsored Buddhism. The Roman emperor Constantine sponsored Christianity. The religious ideologies then became state religions, armed with resources of the state.
A third world religion, Islam, came about in the early 7th century A.D. when the archangel Gabriel dictated God’s words to the prophet Mohammed. Mohammed was a merchant who had been exposed to other Judaic religions when he led caravans to Syria. The message he brought was of a single God, Allah, who was the same God as that of the Christians and Jews. He was considered the latest in a series of prophets which also included Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, delivering God’s most complete message. Mohammed spent years trying to convert citizens of Mecca to his religion. His fortune was made when he was invited to govern the city of Medina. He performed this task admirably and soon was at the head of an army which conquered Mecca and the rest of the Arabian peninsula. After Mohammed’s death in 632 A.D., his successors continued on the path of conquest. They took advantage of the fact that the East Roman empire and Sasanian Persian empire had exhausted each other in centuries-long warfare. The armies of Islam had conquered much of south-central Asia and north Africa by the end of the 7th century.
World religion provided a moral structure for society during the second epoch of world history. Although we place its beginning in the mid first millennium B.C. (when the great philosophers and prophets lived), its period of dominance began in the mid first millennium A.D. when the religions acquired worldly power. In the case of Christianity, it lasted until the Renaissance a thousand years later; in the case of Islam, perhaps a few hundred years after that. The pattern of organization varied.
In western Europe, the church became a freestanding institution after the Roman government fell. By its presumed power to bestow the blessings of God upon royal dynasties and individuals, it was able to develop a power-sharing arrangement with the barbarian kings who held worldly power. Christianity remained the
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state religion of the surviving Byzantine empire. In the Sasanian empire, Zoroastrianism was likewise the state religion. The royal family of Persia were hereditary priests of a pre-Zoroastrian cult that had been incorporated into the Zoroastrian religion. The caliphs who ruled Islamic countries combined religious and political authority as successors to Mohammed. In contrast, Buddhism was largely confined to monastic organization. Confucianism, a moral philosophy, played the part of a state religion in the imperial dynasties of China. Chinese Buddhism appealed to people in a less worldly way.
Government never disappeared in the second civilization. We say that this epoch is religious because religion assumed the dominant position in the partnership between religion and government. Political rulers could choose to put their subjects to the sword, but the church could grant or withhold eternal life. The latter power was the more awesome of the two. Pope Innocent III, who ruled at the apex of papal power, advanced the theory of the “two lights” arguing that as “the moon derives her light from the sun and is superior to the sun ... in the same way ... royal power derives its dignity from pontifical authority.”
A famous passage in Matthew quotes Jesus: “You are Peter, the Rock; and on this rock I will build my church ... I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.” St. Peter was the first bishop of Rome. His successors in that office, the Popes, presumably inherited the power given to Peter. The Roman church exercised its power by administering the sacraments which were thought necessary to salvation. The church could withhold sacraments from persons, including kings, who had offended it. Martin Luther later denied that the church hierarchy had such power. He argued that a person could be saved by belief in Jesus as Lord and saviour. Orthodox Christianity had a different theology. Its leaders were also Christian bishops, peers of the Bishop of Rome but inferior to him with respect to the lineage from Peter.
Medieval Europe was ruled by a two power structure consisting of secular authorities and the church. Some coins had the picture of the Pope on one side; that of the Holy Roman Emperor, on the other. Justice was administered both by ecclesiastical and secular courts. Christianity dominated the society’s belief system. The Christian theology as developed by St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and others mixed classical Greek philosophy (mainly, Aristotle and Plato) with the teachings of the Apostle Paul and the sayings of Jesus. Gothic cathedrals were built for Christian worship. The lives of Jesus and the saints were commemorated in public holidays. Music and the arts were adapted to religious ends.
In the 11th century A.D. two ominous events took place within Christendom. First, Pope Leo IX excommunicated Michael Cerularius, patriarch of the Orthodox church. Second, Urban II issued an appeal for European Christians to liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem authorities. The western church thus severed relations with the eastern church and waged war against Islam. Knights of the First Crusade did capture Jerusalem in 1099 A.D. after a battle killing 70,000 civilians. A Second Crusade, begun fifty years later after the fall of Edessa to the Turks, ended in dismal failure. There was a Third Crusade after Saladin recaptured Jerusalem which captured some territory but the Holy City remained in Moslem hands; and then a Fourth, which was diverted from its purpose; and then a Fifth, aimed at Egypt; and then a Sixth, in which the Pope excommunicated Emperor Frederick II because he did not attack the Moslems quickly enough; and so on, for a total of nine crusades, not counting the ill-fated “Children’s Crusade, which covered the better part of three centuries. At the end, the Holy Land remained in Moslem hands.
Such adventures undermined the moral credibility of the church. Frederick II openly mocked the Pope urging his fellow princes to seize church property. Another event which hurt the Papacy was the “Great Schism”, in which there were rival popes in Rome and Avignon, France. This was damaging to an institution whose legitimacy rested upon a clear line of descent from St. Peter. Then, too, the Roman church was forever borrowing money to finance wars and other projects. The public was becoming disgusted with corrupt priests and the need to raise increasing sums of money. The Renaissance popes practiced nepotism and lived in palaces adorned with costly art. Pope Alexander VI had children. The last straw was a papal indulgence announced by Julius II to raise the money to rebuild St. Peter’s Church. When a Dominican friar came to Germany to announce a new papal dispensation, Martin Luther raised a protest. He posted his “95 Theses” on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg, and the Protestant Reformation began.
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The Protestants were austere reformers who discouraged religious imagery. They focused instead on the words of the Bible. They placed emphasis upon translating the Bible from Latin and Greek into contemporary languages. if Christians could read the Bible themselves, they would not need priests to tell them what was required for salvation. “Scripture alone” was the Protestant source of religious authority and truth. “Justification by faith” was the sole means of salvation. But because each individual could interpret the Bible for himself, the Protestant movement spawned a variety of interpretations. Besides Lutherans, there were Calvinists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Baptists, and groups farther out such as Quakers, Mennonites, and Zwinglians.
The Saxon elector Frederick III gave Luther sanctuary in his castle at Wartburg. Protected by German princes, Luther burned a copy of a papal bull in a bonfire threatening to excommunicate him if he did not recant. European princes picked sides between supporting Luther’s cause and remaining loyal to the Roman church. This led to the Thirty Year”s War which pit Protestant against Catholic and much of Europe against the Hapsburg dynasty. Meanwhile, the two sides waged theological wars in books and pamphlets. Toynbee points out that European intellectuals became interested in the natural sciences about this time. Tired of theological disputes that led only to more strife, they wanted to address “questions concerning natural phenomena that could be discussed dispassionately and could be answered conclusively by observation or by experiment.” In 1760, the Royal Society was founded in England with those objectives in mind.
The Renaissance had anti-Christian overtones. Intellectuals were encountering the pagan classics and finding them superior to what Christianity had to offer. The term “dark ages” was first used then. Men were determined to see things as they were, not as church officials told them must be believed. The science of Aristotle began to be questioned. A new spirit of empiricism filled the culture. In the 17th century, men came to regard comets as a natural phenomenon rather than a warning from God of impending doom. Belief in witchcraft subsided. In the 18th century, French intellectuals became passionate about ridding the world of “authority, intolerance, and superstition.” The “Enlightenment” was a time of intense skepticism about religion. In the 19th Century, the theories of Charles Darwin posed a new challenge to explanations offered by the church. Was plant and animal life created as a result of evolution through natural selection or had God created the separate species? Was man indeed descended from apes?
While the conquering Spaniards converted the peoples of south and central America to Catholicism, European immigrants to North America brought with them a variety of religions. Many settled in America to escape religious persecution. Puritans, Quakers, and others found sanctuary there. And so the political culture of the United States has favored religious tolerance. Jesuit missionaries also went to the Far East and initially had some success in making Christianity acceptable to the traditions of these people. However, the church hierarchy denounced their innovations. As a result, the Chinese imperial government suppressed the Christian religion. A Japanese shogun went so far as to require people to register with a Buddhist temple to prove they were not Christian. Asian peoples came to recognize the superiority of western technology, especially with respect to weaponry. They wanted some exposure to western culture to acquire the technology but were careful not to accept the whole package. To accept Christianity, these people felt, would mean the loss of their own cultural identity.
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Assignment 18A
Final Exam Study Guide: Know the following:
Naturalization Expatriation Jus soli Jus sanguinis
Bill of Rights Constitution Preamble
Election Day Suffrage Voting Rights Act Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation Constitution United Nations
Mayflower Compact Iroquois League of Nations Republic Democracy Monarchy Capitalism Communism
Socialism Fascism Revenue Economics Independence Equality Liberty
Also know:
Presidential term limits Presidential succession Presidential jobs and duties
How a law is made The 2 houses of Congress and their jobs The role of the Supreme Court Civil disobedience
Rights and responsibilities of a free press
Government vs. Religion Individual rights vs Majority rule State vs. Federal authority
Know the DATES (and what each of these are) for the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Articles of Confederation, Federalist papers
Know ALL AMENDMENTS!!!!
Know the citizenship test
Be able to discuss in essay form:
1. Majority Rule And Individual Rights 2. Liberty And Equality 3. State And National Authority 4. Civil Disobedience And The Rule Of The Law 5. Freedom Of The Press And The Right To A Fair Trial 6. The Relationship Of Religion And Government
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