Principles/Origins of Govt. Review

Exercising complete power over nearly every aspect of human affairs.

• Democratic

• Utopian

• Totalitarian

A government where one person holds all the political power. 

• Utopian

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

In this type of government, supreme authority rests with the people.

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

A government which the power is held by a small, usually self-appointed group.

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

In this type of government, those who rule do not hold themselves responsible to the will of the people.

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Republic

His notes were very detailed and in part led him to being called the “Father of the Constitution”.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

He was chosen as president of the Second Continental Congress.

• George Washington

• John Adams

• John Hancock

This was the first government of the United States of America.

• Constitutional Convention

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

After he came to the throne in 1760, Britain began to deal more firmly with the colonies. 

• King George III

• King John

• King Charles I

He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Hancock