Foundations of Government

a government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments

• Authoritarian system

• federal system

• unitary system

• monarchal system

a plan that provides the rules for government

• unitary

• articles

• constitution

• oligarchy

a system of government in which power is in the hands of one person who has total control

• triumvirate

• Dictatorship

• President

• prime minister

a system of government in which a small group holds power

• federal system

• republic

• oligarchy

• confederacy

a state without government and laws

• anarchy

• A failed Nation

• a totalitarian state

• a Dictator

theory that by contract, people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state, in turn, agrees to protect its citizens

• autocracy

• sovereignty

• social contract

• states rights

The ______________ was the final attempt by the Continental Congress to avoid war with Great Britain.

• Olive Branch Petition

• Intolerable Acts

• Boycotting of goods

• Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

What was the date the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence?

• July 4,1776

• August 2, 1776

• April 18, 1776

• December 16, 1773

Thomas Jefferson borrowed many of his ideas from which Enlightenment Philosopher?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Paine

• John Adams

According to the Declaration of Independence who institutes or creates governments?

• The King

• The People

• The Pope

• The President