types of governments

What is a government?

• a group of corporations that control laws

• a person or group of people who control a country

There is no form of government and it is total chaos.

• oligarchy

• autocracy

• anarchy

A government that is ruled by God or a divine being.

• theocracy

• anarchy

• dictatorship

The first forms of governments in the early 1700s were probably ______________________.

• small groups and tribes

• dictators

What type of government is characterized by the rule of a small number of elite people?

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

What is a type of government in which all eligible members are able to vote on key issues and/or for elected representatives?

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

What is a form of government ruled by one person who usually seized power through unlawful means?

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Parliamentary

The United States, Mexico, South Korea, and Russia are all examples of what form of government?

• Representative Democracy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Totalitarian

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

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

Citizens often have no rights

• Representative Democracy
• Dictatorship
• Theocracy