Forms of Government
This form of government allows citizens to participate in decision‑making by voting directly or by choosing representatives to act on their behalf.
What is a Democracy?
This is what you do when you take a concept you learned in class and put it into action.
What is Use?
An organized system that creates laws and provides structure and order for society.
What is Government?
This refers to all the money a government collects through taxes, fees, and other sources before spending it.
What is Revenue?
A city passes a law stating that all citizens must be allowed to vote, attend public schools, and use public facilities regardless of race, gender, or background.
What are Civil Rights?
These horizontal lines measure how far north or south a place is from the Equator.
What is Latitude?
In this system of government, citizens elect officials to make laws, and political power does not belong to a king or queen.
What is a Republic?
A detective gathers clues, examines evidence, and reaches a conclusion. This term asks you to do the same thing with information and facts.
What is Investigate?
After a political party gains control of the state legislature, lawmakers redraw voting district boundaries in a way that weakens the voting power of certain communities by dividing them across multiple districts.
What is Redistricting?
The minimum income level that is considered necessary for a person or family to afford basic needs.
What is the Poverty Level?
A university creates scholarship programs and targeted recruitment efforts to increase the enrollment of students from groups that were historically excluded from higher education.
What is Affirmative Action?
The study of the earth, its physical features, and its peoples.
What is Geography?
A political viewpoint that generally favors limited government involvement, traditional institutions, and slower change to social systems.
What is a Conservatism/What is Conservative?
When a teacher says "Paint me a picture with your words - tell me exactly what happened, step by step, "they are using this term.
What is Describe?
This is a formal decision or statement made by a governing body - like a city council - on specific issue.
What is a Resolution?
Products created for personal use, such as clothing, radios, and refrigerators. These products are purchased by individuals for personal use and help drive demand in an economy.
What are Consumer Goods?
A group of citizens files a lawsuit arguing that new voting requirements unfairly prevent certain communities from casting ballots, violating protections guaranteed by federal law.
What are Civil Rights?
This term describes the exact position of a place on Earth using latitude and longitude coordinates.
What is Absolute Location?
In this form of government, religious leaders control political power, and laws are based on religious beliefs or sacred texts.
What is a Theocracy?
The term asks you to make an appraisal by weighing up the strengths and limitations and make judgements about ideas.
What is Evaluate?
This document is an official change or addition to the U.S. Constitution; the first ten are collectively known as the Bill of Rights.
What is an Amendment?
A government action that would most directly protect domestic industries.
What is a Tariff?
After public protests and demands for fairness, a government changes its laws to make sure citizens are treated more equally and have greater access to opportunities.
What is Reform?
This geographic concept refers to an area of the world - or country - defined by shared physical features or human characteristics. The U. S. has five of these.
What is a Region?
In this system, a king or queen serves as head of state, but their powers are limited by a written constitution or laws passed by an elected government.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
This command term asks you to support your answer using evidence, facts, or logical reasoning.
What is Justify?
This group of advisors, made up of department heads, assists the president in running the executive branch of government.
What is the Cabinet?
A country places an extra tax on imported cars from another nation to make foreign vehicles more expensive and encourage citizens to buy cars made domestically.
What is a Tariff?
Citizens vote in an election to choose officials who will pass laws and make decisions for them instead of voting on every issue themselves.
What is a Representative Democracy?
A general purpose map that shows both the topography and recognized boundaries of an area.
What is Physical-Political Map?
This political system limits individual freedoms and concentrates power in the hands of a strong central authority, but does not always seek total control over private life.
What is Authoritarianism?
It asks you to break apart a topic, find the relationships between is parts, and reach a conclusion.
What is Analyse?
When population data changes after a census, this process redraws the lines of voting districts.
What is Redistricting?
This is the total amount of money a government owes because it has borrowed over many years.
What is Public Debt?
Archaeologists discover a society with written laws, organized government, religious practices, trade systems, and complex social roles.
What is a Civilization?
This is the process and set of activities involved in governing a country or area, including debates over power, policy, elections, and decision-making.
What is Politics?
He has served as Governor of Texas since 2015 and is responsible for enforcing laws and leading the state’s executive branch.
Who is Greg Abbott?
This command term requires you to state only the most important ideas, leaving out supporting details or examples.
What is Summarize?
This legally binding agreement between nations must be approved by the U.S. Senate before it becomes official.
What is a Treaty?
This economic indicator measures the percentage of people who want a job but are unable to find one.
What is the Unemployment Rate?
A formal, legally binding agreement between two or more countries. It must be approved by the Senate with a 2/3 vote.
What is a Treaty?
This describes where a place is located by comparing it to other places rather than using coordinates.
What is Relative Location?