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Government & Human rights Flashcards

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What is GOVERNMENT?

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A system of running a country or state

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What is DEMOCRACY?

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Is government by all of the people. All citizens above a certain age get to vote. They have laws to protect Human Rights.

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What is a PARLIAMENT?

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A council of members that make laws & decisions with a King or Queen as its head.

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What is a REPUBLIC?

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A supreme leader, usually a president, is elected by people

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What is a MONARCHY?

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A monarch is a country where the task of Head of State is inherited (King or Queen)

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What is a PRESIDENT?

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The Head of a Republican state

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What is a DICTATORSHIP?

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Is when one person or party controls the country. There are no fair elections & usually Human Rights abuse.

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What is ANARCHY?

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Where there is not a government

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What is COMMUNISM?

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Is when there is usually a dictatorship & in theory everyone is equal. The government controls all business & farms

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What is FACISM?

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Is when there is one powerful leader & only one party. It’s usually a racist state.

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What is AUTOCRACY?

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Is when one person rules

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When did women get rights in NZ?

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1893

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What is the date of the Declaration of Human Rights & who made it?

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1948.
Made by the UN (United Nations)
eg #4 = no slavery

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When was the Abolition of Slavery & what did it say?

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1807

No ownership of ,or trade in slaves

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Who is the Head of State in NZ?

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The Governor General

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What electorate is Blenheim in?

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Kaikoura electorate

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A few facts on Hitler

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1889, Hitler was born
1941, Hitler begins to prepare for the ‘Final Solution’
1945, Hitler commits suicide

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A few facts on Nazi Germany

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Ruled by Hitler
Hated the Jews
Built Concentration Camps, eg Auschwitz

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What was the STOLEN GENERATION?

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Aboriginal children taken from their parents, in Oz.
Between 1910 & 1970, up to 100,000 children were taken. Many suffered physical & sexual abuse & living conditions were very poor. The main motive was to ‘assimilate’ aboriginal children into European society over one or two generations, by denying & destroying their aboriginality.

LAURA SOCIAL STUDIES YEAR 10 (4 decks)

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