Systems and Forms of Government

• A system of government that one person has absolute power.
• A single ruler (dictator, absolute monarchy)

• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Oligarchy

A system of government in which political power resides with the people.

• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Oligarchy

A few people hold all the power.

• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Oligarchy

A ruler who wields absolute power. Receives power by taking it through force. An autocrat.

• Dictator
• President
• Constitutional Monarch

1. A system of government in which the people elect candidates to make policies and laws for them.
2. This is the type of government that the United States has.

• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy

A system of government where power is located with independent states with a weak central government

• federal

• confederal

• unitary

• parliamentary

A system of government where power is shared between a central and state government

• federal

• confederal

• unitary

• parliamentary

The United States has a federal system of government

• True

• False

A system of government where almost all the power is located with the central government

• Federal

• Confederal

• Unitary

• Parliamentary

The first government formed by the colonists after declaring independence from Britain in 1776 was a confederation.

• True

• False