Different Types of Government

What is government?

• An organization of people who make rules.

• A group of people who controls everything the citizens do.

• One person who has all of the power.

What does a government do (select all correct answers).

• Protects the community

• Makes laws

• Keeps order

• Creates jobs

Which type of government is controlled by a small group of people?

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

Which type of government is controlled by one person with absolute power?

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

Which type of government is ruled by priests/religion

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

Which type of government is controlled by a monarch as the head of state and a parliament or legislature that makes laws.

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Constitutional Monarchy

Which kind of government has a monarch as the ultimate governing authority as head of the government

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

Which type of government is ruled by the people?

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Democracy

Name that government: This government has a king that decides on what laws are right for the people. Which form of government is this?

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

Name that government: This government has a group of monks (priests) that makes all of the laws for the people. What kind of government is this?

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy