Unit 5 & 6 Review

What is a characteristic of a direct Democracy? 

• All eligible citizens can assemble and vote on government issues
• Citizens elect representatives and officials to government offices
• Common Citizens can petition the king or queen
• Citizens can vote for the dictator's political party

True of False
Citizens can change leaders in an authoritarian government by voting them out of office.

• TRUE
• FALSE

What are characteristics of totalitarianism?

• leadership with unlimited control
• government control of media
• ban of democratic ideas
• All of the above

A government where a God or divine ones are given the status of supreme ruler?
(Examples: The Vatican, Egyptians, etc..)

• Democracy
• Dictatorship
• Monarchy
• Theocracy

What type of government has a king or queen that holds all the power?

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Direct Democracy
• Republic

When Sharia law is used in the government, the country is a 

• monarchy
• dictatorship
• autocracy
• theocracy

Ruler, king/queen/emperor/empress, etc.), inherits power.  Rules by divine right- given power to rule by God.

• Theocracy
• Democracy
• Republic
• Monarchy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Example: Modern day – England – ruler is a symbolic head of state with elected members of Parliament who govern.

• Constitutional Monarchy
• President
• Dictator
• Republic

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Example: Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin; censored all books and articles, citizens are terrorized by police; any opposition is sent to labor camps or killed.

• Democracy
• Theocracy
• Republic
• Totalitarian

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Government run by religious leader/leaders; no separation of church and state. 

• Theocracy
• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Anarchy