social studies ged

Question 1

Democracy

Answer 1

Any form of government in which democracy belongs to the people.

Question 2

Direct Democracy

Answer 2

Where people directly vote on government decisions.

Question 3

Representative Democracy

Answer 3

Representatives in government vote on behalf of the people they represent.

Question 4

Republic

Answer 4

Any type of representative democracy where the people have a say in the executive branch.

Question 5

Parliamentary Democracy

Answer 5

Where the executive branch gets its power from and is held accountable to a legislature.

Question 6

Presidential Democracy

Answer 6

Where the executive branch exists separately from the legislature.

Question 7

Autocracy

Answer 7

Government in which only one person holds power.

Question 8

Monarchy

Answer 8

The person comes to power through inheritance from a parent or another relative.

Question 9

Dictatorships

Answer 9

The person comes to power by taking it, often through a military takeover.

Question 10

Oligarchy

Answer 10

A government in which the power is held by just a few people.

Question 11

Aristocracy

Answer 11

Ruled by the nobility, or a small class of privileged people who claim higher status.

Question 12

Plutocracy

Answer 12

Ruled by the wealthy.

Question 13

Stratocracy

Answer 13

Ruled by military leaders

Question 14

Theocracy

Answer 14

Ruled by religious leaders

Question 15

Kleptocracy

Answer 15

A government in which those in power are corrupt.

Question 16

Anarchy

Answer 16

A society with no government.