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WorksheetsAMERICAN GOVT. UNIT ONE REVIEW
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Government is defined as the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.
TRUE
FALSE
Every government has and exercises three basic kinds of power. They are....
legislative power, power of attorney, and municipal power.
legislative power, executive power, and judicial power
presidential power, executive power, and municipal power.
legislative power, executive power, and municipal power.
The four characteristics of a state are...
universal tranquility , military enforcement, financial solvency and popular sovereignty.
population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
judicial authority, military enforcement, financial solvency and popular sovereignty.
public well being, financial solvency, effective transportation, universal healthcare and educational transparency.
The States within the United States are not sovereign.
TRUE
FALSE
After winning independence from Great Britain, the United States drew this up in 1781,
Articles of Confederation.
Bill of Rights
The Constitution
Declaration of Independence
________________ are one illustration of the government’s work to promote the general welfare.
Private Healthcare
Entertainment Industry
Private Enterprise
Public Schools
All governments can be classified according to 3 basic features. They are....
who can participate in the governing process, centralized power within the government, and relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.
selective participate in the governing process, centralized power within the government, and relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.
who can participate in the governing process, the distribution of governmental power within the state and relationship between the judicial and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.
who can participate in the governing process, the distribution of governmental power within the state and relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.
A Democracy, where the people themselves formulate public policy, is known as...
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy.
Indirect Democracy
Selective Democracy
In a republic, the sovereign, or supreme, power is held by _____________________
the congress of the U.S
those eligible to vote,
the Executive Branch
all citizens
______________________ is probably the oldest, and it is certainly the most common, form of government known to history.
dictatorship
Theocracy
Constitutional Monarchy
democracy
A _________________________ exists where the legal system of a state is based on religious law.
Theocracy
Communism
Constitutional Monarchy
democracy
The government in Great Britain is a classic illustration of
Presidential government
democracy
centralized government
Theocracy
A confederate government has the power to
handle only those matters that the member states have agreed upon.
handle matters that the President and his Vice President has agreed upon
handle only those matters that the members of the legislature have agreed upon.
handle only those matters that the members of the Senate have agreed upon.
In this type of government, the prime minister and cabinet are themselves members of the legislative branch,
Theocratic Government
Presidential Government
Parliamentary Government
Republican Government
The concept of democracy was born in
Rome
Carthage
Athens
England
Athenian democracy the central feature was an ______________________. Open to all male citizens at least 18 years of age.
Congress
Assembly
Legislature
Senate
Much of the political history of the Roman Republic revolved around two social classes:
Aristocracy and Royalty
patricians and plebeians
Arctician's and Lords
clergy and aristocracy
During the Roman Republic government was centered on the ___________________________
Legislative Assembly
the King
Consuls
Senate
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire marked the beginning of the Middle Ages and the emergence of ......
Theocracy
Dictators
Democracy
Feudalism
Feudalism was a loosely organized system in which powerful lords divided their lands among serfs and the artisans.
TRUE
FALSE
The primary relationship in the feudal system was between a lord and his _________________.
vassals
serfs
clergy
arcticians
When feudalism emerged, the __________________ coexisted with feudalism and provided some measure of stability to life in the Europe of the Middle Ages.
Catholic Church
guilds
Monarchs
merchant class
By the end of the Middle Ages, a commercial revolution began to change the ways in which people lived and did business. The _______________________ was a major cause of that revolution.
Rise of the Merchant class
Feudalism
Black Plague
Fall of the Roman Empire
As lords (land owners) became more and more desperate to make money, lords(land owners) allowed people to set up ____________ on their land for a fee under a charter.
businesses
guilds
unions
towns
With the development of towns, the decline of feudalism, and the rise of the merchant class, European society was often chaotic. The ____________ provided central authority that merchant allied with.
Rise of Theocracy
Rise of Monarchies
development of Democracy
development of Socialism
