Unit 2: Forms of Government & Economic Systems Vocab Review

• A system of government that one person has absolute power.

• A single ruler

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Confederate

A system of government where a few people hold all the power.

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

1. The voters in a community meet together to make decisions and laws.

2. Suited for smaller communities.

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Monarcy

• Oligarchy

1. A system of government in which the people elect candidates to make policies and laws for them.

2. This is the type of government that the United States has.

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

Nobody has power over other members of the society.

• Representative Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Anarchism

Gov't that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

• communism

• totalitarianism

• autocracy

• oligarchy

Gov't that promises complete equality, abolition of profit, no social classes, and all property controlled by the state.

• communism

• totalitarianism

• oligarchy

• republic

One person is in charge.

• Autocracy
• Democracy

In this country, the government distributes wealth and services in order to provide for citizens. Which form of government is being represented?

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Socialism

• Direct Democracy

The king or queen has complete or total power among his or her people.

• Absolute Monarchy
• Constitutional Monarchy