Forms of Government-Real World

The Lewis and Clark expedition takes a vote to decide where to make their winter camp in 1806. Even Clark’s slave (York) and Sacagawea get to vote.

• Direct Democracy

• Fascism

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro overthrow the government of President Batista, seized and nationalized all lands owned by the Catholic church, and attempted to establish a system of shared resources to provide for the needs of Cuban citizens.

• Democracy

• Republic

• Socialism/Communism

• Monarchy

Germany replaced their Kaiser in 1918 as the Great War (World War One) ended. The new government took its place as a representative body for the German people.

• Republic (Representative Democracy)

• Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Dictatorship

England had long been ruled by a monarch when the country experienced the ‘Glorious Revolution’ in the 1600s. The monarch remained as a symbol, but almost completely stripped of legislative power. Parliament gained more power based on laws in the Bill of Rights of 1689.

• Communism

• Monarchy

• Republic

• Constitutional Monarchy

Benito Mussolini is given power from the Italian King Victor Emmanuel in the 1920s. Mussolini says that communists are enemies, takes control of the army and increases Italian pride and nationalism.

• Communism

• Republic

• Fascism

• Oligarchy

Mr. Detlefsen leaves his classroom unsupervised at 8:00am. He returns at 1:15pm to find the classroom in perfect order. All 16 students were working independently on their various subjects and assignments. Most students were entire pages ahead in their student notebooks.

• Anarchy (from the perspective of an anti-anarchist)

• Anarchy (from the perspective of an anarchist)

• Democracy

• Communism

Chinese dynasties controlled various regions of China for thousands of years. Each dynasty was led by an emperor. Most of China’s population worked as farmers (peasants) with little-to-no political power.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

Mr. Detlefsen leaves his classroom unsupervised at 8:00am. He returns at 1:15pm to find the classroom completely destroyed. The walls were full of graffiti, desks were arranged into two forts at opposite ends of the room, and Hanna, Rafa, and Emilio were tied up to the file cabinet with the shoelaces of Sofi, Flore, and Caye . Ben was swinging from the projector.

• Anarchy (from the perspective of an anti-anarchist)

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

Democratically elected president Laurent Gbagbo in Africa’s Ivory Coast finished his term in 2011. Gbagbo refused to step down, even though another politician was elected to replace him. Gbagbo was starting to follow ideas of a...

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Communist state

The city-state of Babylon was ruled by a king, who had control over the city, but not the entire region. The king of Babylon created the first code of laws, to which all citizens had to obey.

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Fascism

• Communism