AMERICAN HERITAGE BYU FINAL COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED
AND THE LATEST SERIES
Sovereignty
Ans: ultimate political power
Question: legitimacy
Ans: ruling by a sanction rather than stark necessity
Question: Founding
Ans: a conscious, deliberate act of creating a system of government that benefits
the people
Question: Good Society
Ans: reasonably stable and prosperous society without an oppressive tyranny
Question: Human Predicament Cycle
Ans: tyranny to revolution to anarchy to competing groups to tyranny
Question: Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare
Ans: must balance these three things in a government, different groups of thinkers
have different ideas on how to do it
Question: "Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne
, 2025-2026 SERIES
Ans: Core Values of American Society
Question: Woodard
Ans: Individual vs community
Question: Justice Chapter 1
Ans: doing the right thing
Question: John Calvin
Ans: greatly influenced Puritan belief, taught that salvation came through grace,
predestination
Question: Puritans
Ans: wanted to reform Church of England, shaped early America's character
Question: The Christian Calling
Ans: people should pursue a "calling" where they must work hard, be wise
Question: Moral Self-Governance
Ans: People should live a righteous life on their own
Question: God's Elect
, 2025-2026 SERIES
Ans: God has already chosen those who will be saved, elect should build a holy
community
Question: Corporate Community
Ans: colonial settlements with economic or financial purposes
Question: Covenant Community
Ans: colonial settlements based on religious or moral values
Question: City upon a Hill
Ans: a society governed by civil liberty that would be an example to the world
Question: Civil Liberty
Ans: Men are free to do what is good, just, and honest
Question: Natural Liberty
Ans: Men are free to do what they please, no regard for morals
Question: Mayflower Compact
Ans: Established type of society that early Americans wanted
Question: Cotter Maher "A Christian at his calling"
Ans: Puritan view on careers