Baltimore County Public Schools
Division of Curriculum and Instruction
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
Systems of Government
Confederate
Definition
Federal
Unitary
Vocabulary Word
Definition
Types of Authoritarian Rule
Authoritarian
Autocracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Totalitarian
Dictatorship
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Vocabulary Word
Democratic Concepts
Checks and Balances
Definition
Consent of the People
Democracy
Direct Democracy
Limited Government
Majority Rule
Popular Sovereignty
Representative
Democracy
Republic
Rule of Law
Separation of Power
Economic
Concepts
Demand
Definition
Opportunity cost
Scarcity
Supply
Types of Economies
Definition
Command
Mixed
Traditional
Market
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Economic Terms
Capital
Definition
Consumer
Entrepreneur
Goods
Producer
Resources
Services
Vocabulary Word
Definition
Anarchy
Bicameral
Citizenship
Constitution
Equality
Minority
Principle
Relevant
Value
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