Vocabulary Types of Government (Political Systems)



UNIT 1: TYPES OF GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

A. Students will analyze situations in order to draw conclusions about the relevance and

purposes of government in their lives.

• identify the need and purposes for government in a society

• establish the relevancy of government to our daily lives

B. Students will analyze political systems in order to evaluate their effectiveness.

• identify various systems of government

• analyze various types of government

• analyze the characteristics of authoritarian government

• analyze the values and principles of United States democracy

• compare various forms of democracy

• compare different systems and types of government

C. Students will analyze how governments answer the basic economic questions in order to evaluate decisions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.

• define scarcity, benefits, and opportunity costs

• examine three basic economic questions

• analyze how various types of governments answer each economic question

Vocabulary Types of Government (Political Systems)

|Vocabulary Word |Definition |

|Systems of Government | |

|Confederate | |

|Federal | |

|Unitary | |

|Vocabulary Word |Definition |

|Types of Authoritarian Rule | |

|Authoritarian | |

|Autocracy | |

|Monarchy | |

|Oligarchy | |

|Totalitarian | |

|Dictatorship | |

|Vocabulary Word |Definition |

|Democratic Concepts | |

|Checks and Balances | |

|Consent of the People | |

|Democracy | |

|Direct Democracy | |

|Limited Government | |

|Majority Rule | |

|Popular Sovereignty | |

|Representative Democracy | |

|Republic | |

|Rule of Law | |

|Separation of Power | |

|Economic Concepts |Definition |

|Demand | |

|Opportunity cost | |

|Scarcity | |

|Supply | |

|Types of Economies |Definition |

|Command | |

|Mixed | |

|Traditional | |

|Market | |

|Economic Terms |Definition |

|Capital | |

|Consumer | |

|Entrepreneur | |

|Goods | |

|Producer | |

|Resources | |

|Services | |

|Vocabulary Word |Definition |

|Anarchy | |

|Bicameral | |

|Citizenship | |

|Constitution | |

|Equality | |

|Minority | |

|Principle | |

|Relevant | |

|Value | |

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