Government Topic 1 and 2 Test

Match the branch of government to the power that they hold.

• Judicial Branch

• The power to execute, enforce, and administer laws.

• Legislative Branch

• The power to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within society.

• Executive Branch

• The power to make and frame public policies, laws.

Select all of the ways someone can stay engaged in government and politics.

• Stay informed on the news.

• Staying quiet on what you believe in.

• Volunteer for various organizations, attend city meetings, run for office.

• Vote!

The process by which a society decides how power and resources will be distributed within that society is known as...

• Politics

• Government

• Public Policies

• Laws

True or False: There have been no governments that are or were ever exactly alike.

• True

• False

Select the three characteristics that help classify governments.

• Who can participate in the governing process.

• The geographic distribution of governmental power within the state.

• The relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government.

• The relationship between the legislative and judicial branches of government.

• The social class distribution of governmental power within the state.

Match the following types of governments to its definition.

• Oligarchy

• A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited power.

• Autocracy

• A type of democracy where every individual gets to participate directly in the democratic process.

• Republic

• A legal system of a state is based on religious law.

• Direct Democracy

• A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small group, usually self-appointed elite, of people.

• Theocracy

• Sovereign power is held by those eligible to vote, but political power is exercised by representatives chosen by and held responsible to those citizens.

Match the following types of governments to its definition.

• Presidential Government

• A system of shared powers in which the executive and legislative branch have separate powers.

• Parliamentary Government

• A type of democracy where people vote for representatives to participate in the democratic process for them.

• Indirect Democracy

• A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of a prime minister/premier and their cabinet, but they are also part of the legislature.

• Dictatorship

• Those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.

True or False: Rome was the first city-state to have the first democracy.

• True

• False

When the Romans overthrew their monarchy, they replaced their government with a(n)...

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Emperor

Match the following terms to their respective definitions.

• Plebeians

• This group proposed laws in the Roman republic, could veto power over any acts of assemblies or consuls, and advised consuls and assemblies.

• Senators (Roman)

•  The chief executives of government in the Roman Republic, commanders of the army in wartime, conducted foreign affairs, and presided over the Senate and enforced its decrees.

• Patricians

• The common folk in the Roman Republic.

• Consuls

• Rich upper class, landowning aristocrats of the Roman Republic.