RPTM 277 Chapters 5 & 6 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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RPTM 277
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RPTM 277
Human Rights
basic freedoms to which all people are entitled regardless of nationality, gender,
national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status.
Rights that are cultural and economic including the right to participate in culture, the
right to food, and the right to wo...
RPTM 277 Chapters 5 & 6 Questions and
Correct Answers the Latest Update
Human Rights
✓ basic freedoms to which all people are entitled regardless of nationality, gender,
national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status.
✓
✓ Rights that are cultural and economic including the right to participate in culture, the
right to food, and the right to work and receive an education
✓
✓ Examples of social and political human rights include:
✓ a. Life
✓ b. Liberty
✓ c. Freedom of expression
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✓ Examples of cultural and economic human rights include:
✓ a. Culture
✓ b. Food
✓ c. Work
✓ d. Education
✓ e. Leisure
✓ protections allowed to a citizen of a country from the government that are typically
enacted as laws.
✓
✓ such as the right to receive fair and equal treatment or the right to vote.
✓
✓ Include safety, the ability to move or relocate freely, freedom of thought and
expression, choice of religion, and protection from discriminatory practices.
✓
✓ Civil rights vary from nation to nation based on a complex set of interrelated
variables including government stability, political powers, level of industrialization,
and foreign nation support.
Subjugation
✓ involves the act of a person or group forcing another person or group into
submission.
Cyrus Cylinder
✓ was a clay tablet that was written in 539 B.C., is perhaps the first charter of human
rights because it includes proclamations by the king of ancient Persia, Cyrus the
Great, promoting freedom and equality.
Enlightenment
✓ took place in the 18th century.
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✓ a cultural and scientific movement that included a range of ideas centered on reason
as the basis for action, and promoted ideals such as liberty, tolerance, and
constitutional government. Philosophers emphasized importance of equal rights for
all regardless of race, religion, gender, or color.
✓ a political upheaval staged by 13 colonies in North America with the purpose of
separating from governance by the British Empire.
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✓ The colonies rejected the notion that the Parliament of Great Britain could govern
them without allowing political representation and joined together to form the
United States of America.
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✓ These political issues coupled with restriction of independent social and economic
development of the U.S. led to the rebellion known as the American Revolutionary
War, fought between 1775 and 1783.
U.S. Constitution (1791)
✓ drafted in 1787 and then ratified in 1791, establishing the framework for the
government as well as citizens' natural rights.
U.S. Bill of Rights (1791)
✓ The most commonly known U.S. civil rights.
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✓ This document amended, or added, 10 specific statements to the U.S. Constitution
(1787) to protect citizens from an oppressive federal or state government. These
rights were not extended to all citizens.
African Americans
✓ were used as slaves for cheap labor and were not allowed the freedoms or rights of
citizens
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
✓ determined that slaves were "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white
man was bound to respect".
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✓ This law hastened the initiation of the U.S. Civil War.
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