8th Grade Final Exam Review

Match the Type of Government with its definition: A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience: ____________

• AB. Unitary

• A. Federal

• B. Confederate

• C. Parliamentary

Match the Type of Government with its definition: A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group: ____________

• C. Oligarchy

• A. Democracy

• B. Monarchy

• D. Theocracy

Match the Type of Government with its definition: A government in which the president is directly elected by the people: ____________

• BC. Presidential

• A. Parliamentary

• B. Monarchy

• D. Theocracy

Match the Type of Government with its definition: A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power: ____________

• B. Autocracy

• A. Democracy

• C. Oligarchy

• D. Federalism

Match the Type of Government with its definition: The supreme political authority rest with the people and the citizens themselves: ____________

• A. Democracy

• B. Monarchy

• C. Oligarchy

• D. Dictatorship

Match the Type of Government with its definition: 20. An alliance of independent states: ____________

• CD. Confederation

• A. Unitary

• B. Monarchy

• C. Dictatorship

Match the Type of Government with its definition: A government in which the legislative branch elects the president: ____________

• D. Parliamentary

• A. Federal

• B. Monarchy

• C. Confederation

Match the Theory with its definition: 22. God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule: ____________

• C. Divine Right Theory

• A. Social Contract Theory

• B. Evolutionary Theory

• D. Force Theory

Match the Theory with its definition: One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person’s or group’s rule: ____________

• A. Force Theory

• B. Divine Right Theory

• C. Social Contract Theory

• D. Evolutionary Theory

Match the Theory with its definition: Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family: ____________

• B. Evolutionary Theory

• A. Divine Right Theory

• C. Social Contract Theory

• D. Force Theory