Types of Government

Question 1

What is a/an oligarchy?

Answer 1

This is a group of people that over-throw a government.

Question 2

What is a/an absolute monarchy?

Answer 2

This is where the king/queen has all the power.

Question 3

What is a/an constitutional monarchy?

Answer 3

The king/queen has to follow the constitution and they have mostly symbolic powers (throwing the first hockey puck of the season, doing a queen wave, etc.)

Question 4

What is a/an monarchy?

Answer 4

Where the government is a King/Queen.

Question 5

What is a/an junta?

Answer 5

A specific kind of oligarchy that contains a MILITARY group of people.

Question 6

What is a/an dictatorship?

Answer 6

This is where a single person has all the power.

Question 7

What is a republic community?

Answer 7

This is where the people have all the power.

Question 8

What is Anarchy?

Answer 8

This is where there are no laws and/or rules, usually caused by civil war.

Question 9

What is democracy?

Answer 9

There is still a government but the people have a say in what goes.

Question 10

What is direct democracy?

Answer 10

People vote directly on laws.

Question 11

What is representative democracy?

Answer 11

People vote on people who represent them and make the laws.