4. List Of Government Terms

Question 1

Autocracy

Answer 1

One person has complete control over all branches of government

Question 2

Bureaucracy

Answer 2

A system of leaders who carry out works of the government through the use of departments

Question 3

Dictator

Answer 3

A leader who has total control over a country, and is unrestrained by law

Question 4

Foreign exchange student

Answer 4

Pupils who go to another country to study it’s culture for a set amount of time, usually a year.

Question 5

Habeas corpus

Answer 5

An order to bring an arrested person to court and decide whether the imprisonment is legal

Question 6

Insubordination

Answer 6

The act of disobedience

Question 7

Legislation

Answer 7

A proposed law

Question 8

Loathe

Answer 8

To hate or abhor

Question 9

Unrelenting

Answer 9

Inflexible; refusing to yield

Question 10

Welfare state

Answer 10

A country in which the government assumes a large share of the social caretaking of the people

Question 11

Workfare

Answer 11

A system where a person will receive welfare benefits after showing proof of working In a regular job

Question 12

Saddam Hussein

Answer 12

Dictator of Iraq, tolerated no opposition within his country, regime tortured Iraqi people

Question 13

Saddam Hussein managed to keep control of Iraq despite?

Answer 13

Humiliation by the U.S. In continual conflicts since attacks of Persian Gulf in 1990s

Question 14

President George W. Bush did what in March 2003?

Answer 14

Ordered military invasion of Iraq with goal of toppling Hussein from power.

Question 15

War in Iraq began on?

Answer 15

March 19, 2003.

Question 16

Goal of removing Hussein from power was accomplished on?

Answer 16

December 13, 2003

Question 17

General Idi Amin

Answer 17

Dictator of Uganda, similar to Hussein, came to power in 1971

Question 18

Dictator ______ declared Uganda to be a _____ country

Answer 18

General Idi Amin, Muslim

Question 19

In _____, Amin expelled _____ from Uganda

Answer 19

1972, Asians

Question 20

Uganda was at war with?

Answer 20

Neighboring Tanzania

Question 21

Ugandan rebels in war with Tanzania?

Answer 21

Allied with Tanzanian troops and drove Amin from country

Question 22

Amin escaped to?

Answer 22

Saudi Arabia, where he died in August of 2003

Question 23

Canadian province of Quebec?

Answer 23

Had a bureaucracy which desired to gain independence

Question 24

Province of ____ is working to gain independence from ____

Answer 24

Quebec, Canada

Question 25

Example of a bureaucracy at work?

Answer 25

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Question 26

The C.I.A's mission Is?

Answer 26

To support President, the National Security Council, and all who make and execute US national security policy

Question 27

What is the Central Intelligence Agency?

Answer 27

An independent agency whose director is appointed by the president

Question 28

The CIA supports government by?

Answer 28

Providing support related to foreign intelligence and national security as directed by the president.

Question 29

Many people feel that the US is becoming a?

Answer 29

Welfare state

Question 30

A ____ may rule a country with an iron fist and be totally unrestrained by any law of the land

Answer 30

Dictator

Question 31

Louis XVI was a real-life example of a

Answer 31

Autocrat

Question 32

Habeas corpus full term

Answer 32

Writ of habeas corpus

Question 33

Habeas corpus is seen to many countries where freedoms are limited as?

Answer 33

One of the pillars which make our country's freedoms outstanding

Question 34

Louis XVI

Answer 34

Autocrat that ruled France, held power over clergy, nobility, and common people.

Question 35

Milton Friedman

Answer 35

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Question 36

If habeas corpus didn't exist

Answer 36

A person could spend an indefinite period of time in jail waiting for their case to go to trial

Question 37

One person has control over all branches of government?

Answer 37

Autocracy

Question 38

If George Washington became "Kind of America" our government might have become

Answer 38

An autocracy