Civics Study Guide

What do you call a group of people who share a common national, cultural, or racial background?

• Ethnic Group

• Institution

• Government

• Citizenship

What are the general principles or beliefs people use to live and build their daily lives around?

• Values

• Duties

• Responsibilities

• Tolerance

What term refers to the rights and duties/responsibility of citizens?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Citizenship

• Values

• Responsibilities

What is the legal process to obtain citizenship called?

• Naturalization

• Volunteerism

• Tolerance

• Welfare

What term describes respecting and accepting others, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or differences?

• Welfare

• Tolerance

• Values

• Popular Sovereignty

What is the term for the decisions and actions a government takes to solve problems in the community?

• Representative Democracy

• Public Policy

• Totalitarian

• Ideology

In a Constitutional Monarchy, who has their powers limited by a set of laws and rules?

• President

• King or Queen

• Prime Minister

• Governor

Which type of government is characterized by one person or a small group having all the control and power?

• Totalitarian/Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Anarchy

What describes a government that tries to control almost every part of people's lives, including what they think and believe?

• Totalitarian/Autocracy

• Ideology

• Public Policy

• Constitutional Monarchy

What is a collection of ideas and beliefs about how life and society should function on a day to day basis is called?

• Socialism

• Ideology

• Public Policy

• Majority Rule