Social 30-1
We continued looking at parliamentary democracy and presidential democracy today. We looked the structure of the Canadian government and the American government, types of electoral systems, first past the post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR). We also looked at the electoral college system. You had time today to work on your US-Canada Comparative Government Assignment, which is due on Monday. Make sure that you hand in a hard copy of this assignment. You should also read Chapter 10 and work on the Chapter 10 Google Doc this weekend as well. Please remember that you are writing the Unit 2 Final Exam on Monday. Check out the upcoming important dates below.
Please have a look at the other key dates below (and study guides).
UPCOMING KEY DATES:
- Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 22nd (see the study guide below)
- Unit 3 WRA I is on Tuesday, July 23rd
- Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 24th (see the study guide below)
- Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 25th (see the study guide below)
- Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 26th
SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:
The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 22nd. It will be a 50 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
- study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
- study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
- study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
- study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
- please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
- supply-side economics
- boom and bust cycle/business cycle
- laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive - basic economic problems/questions
- advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
- causes of the Great Depression
- FDR and the New Deal
- please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
- also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
- characteristics of a mixed economy
- nationalization
- privatization
- democratic socialism
- welfare capitalism
- Keynesian economics
- the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
- demand-side economics
- neo-conservatives
- monetarism
- trickle down economics
- supply-side economics
- Thatcherism and Reaganomics
- Milton Friedman
- Friedrich Hayek
- how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
- how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
- advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
- neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
- characteristics of a centrally planned economy
- advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
- Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
- Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
- establishment of the Soviet Union
- Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
- Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
- "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
- Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
- "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
- Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
- techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
- modern liberalism
- features of the Nazi state
- Hitler's rise to power
- Characteristics of Democracy
- Characteristics of Dictatorship
- Democratic Systems notes
- Non-Democratic Systems notes
- Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
- A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes (chart)
- Totalitarianism notes
- Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
- do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model
CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:
This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions.
Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism".
You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Google Doc. Please review the following as well:
- Democratic Systems (handout notes)
- Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
- Structure of Canadian Government
- Structure of American Government
- similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
- types of dictatorships
- techniques of dictatorships
- authoritarian systems
- proportional representation concept
- first past the post system
- review political and economic spectrum (again!)
SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:
Please study the following material:
- make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
- study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
- study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
- "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)
Review the following notes/packages:
- Democratic Systems
- Non-Democratic Systems
- types of dictatorships
- techniques of dictatorships
- Civil Rights Movement
- authoritarian systems (China notes)
- review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
- re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
- FLQ Crisis 1970
Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:
- assimilation
- self-interest
- humanitarianism
- Indian Act
- residential school system
- enfranchisement
- the White Paper
- the Red Paper
- “war on terror"
- authoritarianism
- consensus decision-making
- direct democracy
- military dictatorship
- oligarchy
- one-party state
- party solidarity
- representation by population
- proportional representation
- representative democracy
- responsible government
- democracy
- single-member constituency (first past the post)
- the Senate
- the House of Commons
- the House of Representatives
- the Senate
- mixed-member proportional system
- lobby groups
- American Bill of Rights
- Anti-Terrorism Act
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- emergency and security legislation
- illiberal
- language legislation
- Bill 101
- Bill 178
- Bill 86
- Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
- respect for law and order
- terrorism
- rendition
- the War Measures Act
- enemy aliens
- internment
- the Emergencies Act
- USA PATRIOT Act
- consumerism
- environmental change
- extremism
- pandemics
- postmodernism
