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Forms of Govt. Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call it when there's no government at all? | anarchy |
| What is a government ruled by a king and a royal family called? | Monarchy |
| What do you call a government that features mostly religion-based laws? | Theocracy |
| What is a government led by a single person called? | Dictatorship |
| What do you call a government led by a small group of people? | Oligarchy |
| What do you call a government in which all decisions are made by the people? | Direct Democracy |
| What is a government with elected officials called? | Representative Democracy |
| What do we call the change from one government to another? | Revolution |
| In a Communist country, workers have no __ to work harder. | incentive |
| In most cases, the cost of a good or service depends on the supply and __ of that good. | demand |
| A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has complete power. | Absolute Monarchy |
| A system in which the government holds nearly all political power and the means of production. | Communism |
| In a __/ Communism , the government determines the economy. | command economy |
| The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies | Government |
| People, government, territory, & sovereignty defines a __. | State |
| States that God created the State | Divine Right Theory |
| Idea that one person claims controls over an area, forcing all in the area to submit to that persons rule. | Force Theory |
| Family > Clan > Tribe > State | Evolutionary Theory |
| Opposed ratification of the constitution. | Antifederalist |
| first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution | Bill of Rights |
| called for a bicameral legislature, favored the large States | Virgina Plan |
| one of earliest English efforts towards limited government created in 1215 A.D. | Magna Carta |
| Supported ratification of the U.S. Constitution | Federalsts |
| Powerful alliance of six native American nations | Iroquois Confederation |
| sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid. | Ratify |
| essays written in support of the ratification of the Constitution | Federalist Papers |
| proposal that called for a unicameral legislature, supported by the small States | New Jersey Plan |
| passed by Parliament in the Glorious Revolution | English Bill Of Rights |
| created a system for admitting States into the Union | Northwest Ordinance |
| parliament's first attempt to tax the colonist directly | Stamp Act |
| delegates to the Constitutional convention | framers |
| the nation's first constitution, adopted June 12,1777 | Articles of confederation |
| revolt of Massachusetts farmers led by a former Revolutionary war captain | Shay's rebellion |
| settled disagreement about how enslaved people should be counted in calculated congressional representation | Three-Fifths Compromise |
| combined elements from both the Virginia and New Jersey Plans | Great Compromise |
| held in Philadelphia at Independence Hall | Constitutional Convention |
| wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 | Thomas Jefferson |
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