American Government 1

 ____, a city-state in ancient Greece, was an early democracy.

• Athens
• Sparta
• Rome
• Carthage

 The type of democracy in which all eligible voters vote on all issues in large meetings.

• representative
• classical
• Roman
• republic

 The founders of the United States did not trust classical democracy, seeing it as prone to ____, or overly emotional decisions made by the majority with little regard for the rights of the individual or minority.

• respect for the rights of minorities
• sanity
• rationalism
• mob rule

 The Roman form of democracy is indirect democracy, or a ___.

• Athenian democracy
• republic
• direct democracy
• oligarchy

 What form of democracy has the people vote for leaders who then meet to make laws?

• republic
• direct
• Athenian
• classical

  The founders of the United States modeled much of the government on the _____.

• Athenian democracy
• Spartan slave-state
• Roman Republic
• Persian theocracy

 The _____ tradition refers to the influence of Judaism and Christianity on our culture and laws.

• Judeo-Christian
• Christo-Judean
• Roman
• Athenian

The Founders of the United States did not permit one ___ to be an official government ___. Belief, or skepticism, regarding ___ was the right of each individual.

• science
• musical genre
• sport
• religion

 The Founders of the United States were mostly___ and were influenced by the teachings of that faith.

• Buddhists
• Christians
• Zoroastrians
• Shintoists

 The Magna Carta (Latin for "____") was forced on King John of England in 1215 by a group of Barons.

• Fair Deal
• Good Day
• Great Charter
• New Deal