Social Studies Test Review

Define government?

• the system by which  a country is organized.

• Who can vote and who cannot

• Where someone lives

• A country

Why were governments first created?

• To arrest people

• Because people wanted to be in charge

• keep order and protect the people

• They have always been here

What is the main purpose of a legislative branch?

• arrest people.

• create laws.

• enforce laws.

• break laws.

What is the main purpose of a judicial branch?

• enforce laws.

• make laws.

• put people in jail.

• solve disputes in a court system.

What is the main purpose of an executive branch?

• make laws.

• argue about laws.

• enforce laws.

• there is no point.

Explain why the United States is considered a republic.

• Because people tell us what to do.

• because citizens vote for people to represent them in the government.

• Because we CANNOT vote.

• All nations are a republic.

Explain the difference between bicameral and unicameral legislatures.

• A bicameral legislature has two houses or assemblies. A unicameral legislature has one house or assembly

• Bicameral has one house and unicameral has two.

• Both are the same.

• Who knows...

Explain how citizens participate in presidential and parliamentary democracies. How are their heads of states or chief executives chosen?

• People cannot vote in either. Presidental democracy the president is elected by the people. Parlimentary has a president also.

• People vote in both. Presidental democracy the president is chosen by the family members. Parlimentary has a prime minister.

• People vote in both.  in a presidential democracy the president is elected by the people. parliamentary democracy has a prime minister

• Nobody can vote. Presidental democracy the president is elected by the people. Parlimentary has no leader.

What part or parts of the government have the most power in a federal government?

• Power is given only to the presidents.

• Power is shared equally among a central government and state/local governments in a federal system

• Nobody has any power except for the local and state governments.

• Only the federal government has power.

Marci lives in a country that is separated by different regions called provinces. The provinces and central government share power. What type of government does her country have? 

• Federal

• autocratic

• democracy

• parlimentary democracy