Governance and Political Terms Quiz

Which term refers to the main city where the government of a country or state is located?

• Plantation

• Capital

• Territory

• Secede

To officially withdraw from a government or country is...

• Secede

• Government

• Territory

• Synthesize

What is a system for making and enforcing laws and providing services to people?

• Government

• Constitution

• Capital

• Plantation

What is a large farm, usually worked by many laborers? (usually owned by wealthy white settlers)

• Plantation

• Capital

• State

• Government

What is a document that spells out the powers of a government and the rights of citizens?

• Constitution

• Capital

• Plantation

• State

Which term describes the action of separating people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences?

• Citizens

• Segregation

• Boycott

• Reconstruction

People who by law have a right to the protection of a government.

• Boycott

• Citizens

• Segregation

• Reconstruction

What is the term for a protest where people refuse to buy or use goods and services?

• Segregation

• Boycott

• Reconstruction

• Citizens

What is the term for an area of land that is part of a larger area and that has its own government? (This is the first step before becoming a state.)

• Segregation

• Territory

• Capital

• Reservation

What is the process by which the United States reunited the South with the Union after the Civil War?

• Reconstruction

• Revolution

• Reformation

• Reconciliation