The Basics
This provides the structure that keeps a society functioning.
What is a Government?
This is a government ruled by a single person, usually a king or a queen.
What is a Monarchy?
In this economic system, the means of production are privately owned.
What is Capitalism?
A type of democracy in which the citizens elect leaders who make decisions for them.
What is Representative Democracy?
A written document in which government gives specific rights and powers to an organization.
What is a Charter?
This term means when a state has the authority to govern itself.
What is Sovereign?
Democratic societies vote and vote choices based on what the majority chooses. This is called __________ _______.
What is Majority Rule?
The resources used to create products. Includes land, factories, energy producers, and labor.
What are the Means of Production?
The American government is split into three equal branches - Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. This is an example of which concept?
What is Separation of Powers?
An assembly of officials who represent the population.
What is a Legislature?
This concept holds that all people are accountable for following the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
A type of government where one person gains complete control by seizing power. (HINT: North Korea is an example of this)
What is a Dictatorship?
In this economic system, the means of production are owned by the government or the state.
What is Socialism?
These are features of government that can strengthen or limit the actions of one part of government to keep it from becoming more powerful than the others.
What are Balances?
This plan, proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, would have called for an annual assembly of delegates from the colonial governments. It was eventually rejected.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
This is the process of making decisions about government, specifically decisions about who holds power.
What is Politics?
This type of government places power in one person or a small group of people.
What is Authoritarianism?
A philosophy that calls for total equality and an end to private property. Developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
What is Communism?
This movement during the 17th and 18th centuries challenged traditional ideas about authority and the way society was structured.
What is the Enlightenment?
In 1620, the Pilgrims wrote this document, which set up their own set of rules to follow.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is the form of government in which citizens elect leaders to office, who then represent the citizens' voice in government.
What is a Republic?
This is the violent overthrow of a government.
What is a Coup d'etat?
The part of the economy owned by private individuals and companies. Around 85% of the people employed in the United States work in this part.
What is the Private Sector?
This document from 13th century England limited the power of the British monarch and protected certain rights of the people.
What is the Magna Carta?
Written in 1682, one year after Pennsylvania's founding, the PA legislature met for the first time to write this document, a series of laws for the colony.
What was the Great Law?