Types of Governments 1
The people have power in the government.
What is democracy?
Dictatorship in which the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives.
What is totalitarianism?
The 1787 Constitutional Convention occurred in this city. (bonus points if you name the building)
What is Philadelphia?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the US government was missing this executive position.
What is a president?
This branch contains the POTUS.
What is the executive branch?
This is another term for an indirect democracy.
What is a republic?
Rule by one.
What is autocracy?
The name of the first document used by the United States to determine the powers of the central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The 3/5 Compromise dealt with this issue.
What was slavery?
This branch enforces the laws.
What is the executive branch?
This term refers to power in a government being divided between local and national levels.
What is federalism?
The first democracy originated in this city-state.
What is Athens?
This plan for the US government wanted representation in Congress to be equal between the states.
What was the New Jersey plan?
One of the convention's compromises was that Congress was not allowed to interfere with this institution for 20 years.
What was slavery?
This branch makes the laws.
This term refers to power in a government being primarily at the local level, with a very weak national government.
What is a confederacy?
All power is centralized to a single national government.
What is unitary?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the US government could not levy a national tax. Instead, they got their money from this source.
What are the states?
This man was elected the leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who was George Washington?
This branch interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
Lack of government.
What is anarchy?
The European Union is this type of government.
Many of the ideas of the Constitutional Convention came from this 1215 British document that limited their monarch's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This plan for the US government wanted representation in Congress to be proportional to the state populations.
What was the Virginia Plan?
This branch contains the House and the Senate.
What is the legislative branch?