Forms of Government

An Autocracy is when:

• People participate in the running of their own government by voting.

• a small military group takes over a country

• a single person has all of the power

• religion is used to justify power

This form of government exists when a single ruler has absolute control over people'd lives:

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

Which form of government is governed by a King or Queen?

• Anarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

Which form of government is governed by a King or Queen?

• Anarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

When a small group of military leaders who rule a country after taking it by force the oligarchy is called a __________.

• Autocracy

• Anarchy

• Junta

• Democracy

Name the form of government that recognizes God or a divine being as the ultimate authority.

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

• Junta

• Democracy

Anarchy is known as:

• A strict form of government with a single ruler

• A form of government for and by the people

• An exclusive group that governs the people

• A human state of existence before government developed

A dictatorship can also be a democracy.

• true
• false

Gov't where a king or queen rules by right of birth.

• totalitarianism

• communism

• monarchy

• democracy

Gov't where power is divided up by national, state, and local levels.

• democracy

• government

• federal system

• autocracy