1. Warmup 1/31
Which of the five political systems is The United States of America?
How do you know?
Do you think there are any other systems it shows traits of?

2. Semester 2: The Long 19th Century

3. Long 19th Century Describes the period 1789-1918
Unit 6: The Atlantic Revolutions: modern government is born
Unit 7: Industrial Revolution: the second great societal shift occurs
Unit 8: New Imperialism: Europe sets out to conquer the world
Unit 9: Nationalism: modern ideas of nation and identity form, uniting states and tearing others apart.
Unit 10: World War 1: it all ends in a bloodbath

4. Long 19th Century
This is perhaps the century of greatest change in all of human history.
Almost everything we do in Semester 2 happened during the same 130 years.
From the French Revolution to World War 1 is just barely more than one human lifespan.

5. Unit 6 – The Atlantic Revolutions
The Atlantic Revolutions are defined by 2 movements:
The people of Europe demanding a say in their governments.
The people of Americas pushing back against European control.

6. Unit 6 – The Atlantic Revolutions
What are we going to learn:
Political Systems
The Age of Absolutism
The Enlightenment
The French Revolution
The Latin American Revolutions

7. Political Systems
In order to understand the revolutions, we need to understand political systems.
A political system is simply the method by which decisions are made for a state.

8. Why is this spectrum unhelpful?

9. Power Spectrum – draw this

10. Government Types Autocracy: almost all power rests in one person.
Oligarchy: a small group of people make all the decisions.
Representative Democracy: people vote on leaders, who then make decisions.
Direct Democracy: people vote on all or most government decisions.
Anarchy: the government does not have the right/power to force people into anything.

11. Two more terms:
Monarchy: any government with a royal family, where political power is inherited or owned.
Republic: a system that is not a monarchy, where political power cannot be owned.
Both a Monarchy and Republic can be most of the previously mentioned systems.

12. Representative Democracy
Examples
Autocracy
Oligarchy
Representative Democracy
Direct Democracy
Anarchy
Monarchy
Absolute Monarchies
Feudal States
Constitutional Monarchies
Could exist but never has
???
Republic
Modern Dictatorships
Military Juntas
Democratic Republics
Athens or Switzerland
Freeland

13. Terms
Sovereignty is power or authority of a state to do both of the following:
Determine laws and decisions for all things within the territory of the state—including living persons.
Determine laws and decisions for all citizens and property of the state—regardless where those citizens or property are.

14. Governments on Sovereignty
Autocracy: the supreme ruler has full sovereignty over the state and people.
Oligarchy: sovereignty is divided amongst the wealthiest and most powerful.
Representative Democracy: sovereignty rests in the people but they allow it to be wielded by chosen representatives.
Direct Democracy: sovereignty rests in the people.
Anarchy: all people are sovereign over themselves.

15. Assignment: Identifying Political Systems
You are going to look at 6 example political systems and determine what kind of government it is.