NES Elementary Education Subtest 1: Social Studies (full set) questions with correct answers

legislative branch - Answer made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives. The most important duty of the legislative branch is to make laws. executive branch - Answer vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. judicial branch - Answer the power to interpret laws and settle disputes authoritarian governments - Answer a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional accountability under an authoritarian regime. EX. China, Myanmar, Cuba and Iran democratic government - Answer A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives. autocracies - Answer a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control. There are two main types of autocracy: a monarchy and a dictatorship. oligarchies - Answer in some authoritarian governments, a small, elite group has the power to rule whose authority generally is based