Unit 1- Types of Government Review

A teacher celebrates her class with an ice cream party. After all members of the class discuss the flavor options, the teacher holds a vote where each student casts a ballot. The majority of votes will decide what ice cream flavor the class has.

What type of government best represents what is happening in this scenario?

• Direct Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Representative Democracy

If the rich billionaires of Croatia are the ones making decisions to control the government, then it would be this type of government

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

Determine which type of government is best described in the scenario below:

Freedom of speech is protected for all citizens

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

Determine which type of government is best described in the scenario below:

Political authority is inherited

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

Determine which type of government is best described in the scenario below:

Very little, if any, citizen participation in government

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

Determine which type of government is best described in the scenario below:

Government power is limited by consent of the people

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

Determine which type of government is best described in the scenario below:

Political power and authority is held by onle one person or a select few

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

Determine which type of government is best described in the scenario below:

Government relies heavily on active citizen participation

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

Match the type of government to its description

• Totalitarian

• Government where a single ruler controls the govt and all aspects of society like politics, culture, education, etc.

• Theocracy

• Government where a few people rule and get their position through some type of elite status

• Dictatorship

• Government where one person takes control of the govt by forceand uses military as their main weapon of control

• Oligarchy

• government where a single ruler has control and they pass the position through the bloodline of their family

• Absolute Monarchy

• Government where the rules come from religious tradition, or a religious text

Drag the example of democracy to the correct category

Groups:

(a) Representative Democracy

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(b) Direct Democracy

• Every individual of a village would gather together and make decisions

• In this form all laws, bills, and decisions are voted on by all citizens

• Senators are elected by citizens of states to represent then in Washington, DC

• Citizens elect leaders to vote for them

• In small towns in a state, every resident who shows up to town hall meetings votes on issues

• Congressmen are elected by constituents of their districts