Types of Government
$100: A government in which citizens vote directly on laws and policies.
Answer: What is direct democracy?
$100: This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Answer: What is Jamestown?
$100: This meeting was held in Philadelphia in 1787 to address problems with the Articles of Confederation.
Answer: What is the Constitutional Convention?
$100: The author of Federalist No. 10 was this Founding Father.
Answer: Who is James Madison?
$100: This principle means that government officials and citizens are all subject to the law.
Answer: What is the rule of law?
$200: A government in which one person has complete or nearly complete control over the government.
Answer: What is a dictatorship?
$200: This colony was founded by William Penn as a refuge for Quakers and other religious groups.
Answer: What is Pennsylvania?
$200: This compromise created a two-house Congress with representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other.
Answer: What is the Great Compromise?
$200: In Federalist No. 10, Madison argues that this is a major danger to popular government.
Answer: What are factions?
$200: This principle means that government gets its authority from the people.
Answer: What is popular sovereignty?
$300: A government in which political power is held by the people and exercised through elected representatives.
Answer: What is a republic?
$300: These three colonies were founded as New England colonies. Name all three.
Answer: What are Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?
$300: This compromise determined how enslaved people would be counted when determining representation and taxation.
Answer: What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
$300: Madison argues that a large republic makes it more difficult for any single faction to gain control because of this.
Answer: What is the greater diversity of interests?
$300: This principle divides power between the national government and state governments.
Answer: What is federalism?
$400: This type of government is ruled by a king or queen, but the monarch's power is limited by a constitution.
Answer: What is a constitutional monarchy?
$400: This colony was founded by Lord Baltimore and became known for its policy of religious toleration.
Answer: What is Maryland?
$400: This plan favored representation based on population and proposed a bicameral legislature.
Answer: What is the Virginia Plan?
$400: According to Madison, the causes of factions cannot realistically be eliminated without destroying this fundamental principle.
Answer: What is liberty?
$400: This system allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches.
Answer: What are checks and balances?
$500: This system attempts to control nearly every aspect of citizens' political, economic, and social lives.
Answer: What is totalitarianism?
$500: Name the three types of English colonies and explain who generally controlled each type.
Answer: What are royal, proprietary, and charter colonies?
$500: This principle divides government power among three branches so that no single branch becomes too powerful.
Answer: What is separation of powers?
$500: In Federalist No. 9, Hamilton argues that a strong union can prevent the problems that historically caused small republics to become unstable. What constitutional structure does he support as part of the solution?
Answer: What is a strong federal government/union with a system of checks and balances?
$500: The first ten amendments to the Constitution are collectively known as this.
Answer: What is the Bill of Rights?