Citizenship & Gov't Basics
This term describes the rights and responsibilties of people in a community.
What is citizenship?
This type of government is usually controlled by one single person who holds all power.
What is a dictatorship?
This ancient civilization is known for developing the earliest form of democracy.
Who is Greece?
This field of study focuses on how people make and use goods and services.
What is economics?
These rights belong to all people simply because they are human beings.
What are human rights?
This type of government is one where citizens elect leaders to make decisions for them.
What is representative government?
This government system tightly controls people's public and private lives, allowing very few freedoms.
What is a totalitarian government?
What is totalitarianism?
This political idea borrowed from ancient Greece states that citizens should have a voice in government.
What is citizens should have a voice.
What is citizens should be allowed to assemble.
This word refers to something you can see or touch, such as an item people buy.
What is a good?
Jailing people for speaking against the government is an example of what type of abuse?
This form of government gives citizens a role in choosing their leaders.
What is democracy?
In this economic-political system, the government owns all property and controls the economy.
What is communisim?
This important document organizes a nation's systems of laws and government.
What is a constituion?
This term describes an action someone performs for another, such as teaching or cleaning.
What is a service?
These rights protect people's basic freedoms.
What are human rights?
This is the type of government the United States has
What is a represetative democracy?
This strict system values strong nationalism and total control over people, often limiting individual freedoms.
What is fascism?
What is the main difference between a democracy where people help make decisions, and in a dictatiorship where one leader controls everything.
What is people have a say in a democracy, but one leader has all the power in a dictatorship?
These people make or grow goods and provide servies for others to buy?
What are producers?
This is why human rights are important for people everywhere.
What is because human rights keep people safe and treated fairly?
This is the reason voting is important, because it allows citizens to take part in the decision-making of their government.
What is voting?
This type of government systems does not encourage free speech or open elections.
What is fascism and/or communism?
This is why democracies protect freedoms like speech and voting.
What is to let people share ideas and choose their leaders?
This economic system allows individuals--not the government--to make most economic decisions.
Who are individuals or citizens?
True or False: A market economy is controlled completely by government.
What is false?