Forms of Government
The type of government which is led by a king or queen.
What is a Monarchy?
This term means to give valid reasons or evidence to support an answer or conclusion.
What is Justify?
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are collectively known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is money or resources used for investments and economic growth.
What is Capital?
These legal protections ensure that all citizens are treated equally under the law.
What are Civil Rights?
This small geographic zone is used to organize voters during elections
What is a Precinct?
In this government system, citizens elect representatives to make laws and decisions on their behalf.
What is a Republic?
This term means to observe, study, or make a detailed and systematic examination, in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
What is Investigate?
This written document outlines a government's structure, powers, and limits.
What is the Constitution?
This is what happens when a government spends more than it collects in revenue.
What is a Deficit?
To forcibly keep groups of people separate - often by law - is to do this.
What is Segregate?
Shared beliefs, values, traditions, and customs of a group of people.
What is Culture?
This system of government is run by a small, powerful group of people - not the general public.
What is an Oligarchy?
This term asks you to give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern, or process.
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?
This is the main industries that keep a city's economy running.
What is the Economic Base?
This term describes policies designed to improve opportunities for historically marginalized groups.
What is Affirmative Action?
This is the act of attempting to influence elected lawmakers, often done by special interest groups.
What is Lobbying?
What is a Dictatorship?
This term asks you to give a detailed account including reasons or causes.
What is Explain?
This term describes the organization of roles and relationships within a society.
What is Social Structure?
A tax placed on imported goods to protect domestic industries.
What is a Tariff?
This is an effort to change or improve a law, system, or institution that is not working well.
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?
This is government system divides/share power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This term means to apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice.
What is Use?
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting whether laws are constitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This financial plan ensures that a government's income and expenses are exactly equal.
What is a Balanced Budget?
This governmental system exists in the United States.
What is a Representative Democracy?
An organized group that works to influence government policy on a specific issue.
What is a Special Interest Group?
An extreme form of government where the state controls every aspect of public and private life.
What is Totalitarianism?
The term asks you to make an appraisal by weighing up the strengths and limitations and make judgements about ideas.
What is Evaluate?
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?
A complex, advanced society with an organized government, a legal system, a culture, and a developed economy.
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?