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Government Chapter 1 Test
Government by Ben
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History
11th Grade
09/09/2015

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What is an Autocracy?
Definition
Power and authority reside in a single individual, such as a dictatorship.
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What is an Oligarchy?
Definition
A small group holds power in the government, such as a communist country.
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What is a Democracy?
Definition
The people hold the sovereign power o the nation.
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Direct Democracy is?
Definition
People govern themselves by voting on issues idividually as citizens.
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Representative Democracy is?
Definition
People elect representatives and give them the power and responsibility to make laws.
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Democracies are strengthened by?
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Stable growing economies with a large middle class.
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Define Capitalism
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An economic system providing free choice and individual encentive for workers, investors, consumers, and business enterprises.
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Define Free Market
Definition
An economic system in which buyers an sellers make free choices in the marketplace.
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Define Socialism
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An economic system in which the governmentowns the basic means of production, distributes products and wages, and provides social services such as health care and welfare.
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Define Communism
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An economic system in which the government controls the factors of production.
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Name 2 political parties
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Democrats and Republicans
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Totalitarian dictatorship is a form of the type of government.
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Autocracy
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The U.S. has this form of government.
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Representative Democracy
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In which form of government do individuals have the most freedom.
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Democracy
Term
A free enterpirze system
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Capitalism
Term
A command economy
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Communism
Term
Adam Smith provided a philosophy for this type of economic system.
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Free Market
Term
In this type of economy, the goernment owns the basic means of production.
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Socialism
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Critics claim that this type of economic system hinders economic growth.
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Socialism
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The U.S. has this type of economic system
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Mixed-Market Economy
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Karl Marx believed that under this economic system one class would evolve
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Communism
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____ was one of the first students of government.
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Aristotle
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____ - a political community that occupies a defineite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enfrce laws withouth approval from any higher authority.
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State
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____ - is any sizable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion.
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Nation
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____ - The state evolved from the family group
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Evolutionary Theory
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____ - One person or a group used force to establish its authority to gobern the people
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Force Theory
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____ - The rulers of the people were chosen by gods to govern
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Divine Right Theory
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____ - The people gave the government its power to rule them, and in return the gobernment had to respect the people's rights
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Social Contract Theory
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____ ____ wrote that people were naturally endowed with the right to life, liberty, and property.
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John Locke
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Governments are needed to maintain _____ _____ by making and _______ ____.
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Social Order, Enforcing Laws
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This term means a state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries.
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Sovereignty
Term
American colonies declared their independence based on
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John Locke's political writings
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Define Federal System
Definition
A government that divides the powers of government between the national gobernment and state or provincial governments
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Define Constitutional Government
Definition
A government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the power of those who govern
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Define Preamble
Definition
A statement in the onstitution that sets forth the goals and purposes of government
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Define Politics
Definition
The effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government
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