Types of Government

What are the 3 main types of government?

• Autocracy, Democracy, and Oligarchy

• executive, judicial, legislative

• Anarchy, Theocracy, and Direct Democracy

In this type of government, one person has absolute power.

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

T/F - Absolute Monarch and Dictatorship are the 2 types of Autocracy.

• True

• False

What do both absolute monarchy and dictatorship have in common?

• they both give power to the citizens

• they are both an autocracy

• they are both a democracy

• they are both an anarchy

What type of government is ruled by one person, usually the child of the previous ruler?

• Absolute Monarch

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy

What type of government is ruled by force? 

• Theocracy 
• Democarcy
• Dictatorship 
• Monarchy 

This type of government is often called the rule of the people.

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

In what system of government do individual citizens make the laws directly by voting, without electing representatives?

• Direct Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

• Monarchy

People elect representatives to make laws/decisions for them

• Anarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Dictator

• Monarchy

The citizens in the U.S. choose leaders to make decisions on our behalf. Which type of government does the U.S. have?

• Direct Democracy
• United Democracy
• Republic Democracy
• Representative Democracy