Governments L2
What is the term: The group of people who make and carry out the laws for a country or state.
What is a "Government?"
What is the term: the way a country or a state manages its money and resources to produce, buy, and sell goods
What is an "Economy"?
A citizen in an unlimited government is arrested for criticizing the country's leader. Name the right that is being violated.
What is "A human right (the right to speak freely)?"
What is the term: a good or service produced in the home country and sold to another country.
Export
What is the term: A sudden, often forceful takeover of the government by a small group, such as military leaders.
What is a "coup"?
What is the term: A written plan that sets out a country's rules of government and lists the rights of its people.
What is a "Constitution?"
In a market, the two forces that decide what things cost.
What is "Supply and Demand"?
Supply: how much of a good is available
Demand: how much people want to buy it.
List two types of a limited government.
Possible answers: Democracy, Constitutional Monarchy, Republic.
What is the term: a good or service brought into a country from abroad for sale.
Import
This type of economy is Based on customs and beliefs passed down through generations; people hunt or farm like their ancestors.
What is a "Traditional Economy"?
What is the type of government: When the leader holds nearly all the power with few or no limits. Elections may still exist, but they are not fair, and the constitution either does not exist or does not actually restrain the leader.
What is an "Unlimited Government?"
Name two of the four main types of economic systems.
What are "Traditional, Command, Market, and Mixed Economies"?
Priya volunteers every other Saturday at the community food bank, sorting cans and packing boxes for families. What responsibility is she modeling?
Responsibility: Promoting General Welfare!
Why does it matter: Answers will vary.
Predict whether the price of the good will likely go up or down based on the rules of supply and demand:
A local farmer grows way too many watermelons during a very cool summer. No one wants to buy them, so the supply is high, but the demand is low.
Price will go DOWN!
What is the term: This factor of production is the creativity and risk-taking needed to start a new business.
What is "entrepreneurship"?
What is the type of government: the leader's power has limits, usually set by a constitution, and citizens have real rights. The people hold the real power, leaders are chosen by fair elections, and a constitution keeps any one person from taking over
What is a "limited Government"?
What are two of the Four Factors of Production?
What is "Labor, Land, Capital, and Entrepreneurship"?
Which kind of government do you think protects citizens better —> one with a constitution, or one where the military just took over in a coup? Explain your answer.
What is a "Government with a Constitution"
Reasons will vary.
List one reason why a nation might choose to trade instead of producing a good or service at home.
Possible Reasons: Cost, Lack of Resources, High/Urgent Demand, Time, Lack of Skilled Labor, etc.
The two major political parties in the United States
What is "Democrat and Republican"?
Name the one of the 3 Main Citizen Responsibilities.
What is "Voting, Peaceful Protest, and Promoting Public Welfare"
Voting: taking part in elections to choose leaders.
Peaceful protest: speaking out publicly for a cause without violence
Promoting the general welfare: helping the well-being of the whole community.
What is the term: a situation where nations rely on each other for resources, goods, and services.
What is "Interdependence?"
Sort the 6 types of government into Limited and Unlimited Governments: Democracy, Republic, Dictatorship, Authoritarian, Constitutional Monarchy, and Communism
Unlimited: Communism, Authoritarian, and Dictatorship
Limited: Democracy, Republic, Constitutional Monarchy
Who makes decisions in a Mixed Economy?
A mixture of Private Business/Individuals and the Government.
What is the term: a score from 0, least free, to 100, most free, that measures political rights and civil liberties.
what is a "freedom rating"?