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WorksheetsCh. 1 Government 1.4, The Basics of Democracy
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
In a democracy, the majority of the people will be right more often than they will be wrong, and will be right more often than will any one person or small group.
majority rule
compromise
citizen
free enterprise system
A member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights.
majority rule
compromise
citizen
free enterprise system
An adjustment of opposing principles or systems, by modifying some aspect of each, in order to find the position most acceptable to the majority.
majority rule
compromise
citizen
free enterprise system
An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control and determined in a free market.
majority rule
compromise
citizen
free enterprise system
(1841 -1935) was a justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 - 1932 who was nicknamed the Great Dissenter.
James Bryce
Winston Churchill
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
(1874 - 1965) was a British statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 - 1945 during most of World War II and from 1951 - 1955. He was the first honorary US citizen and was granted the Nobel Prize in Literature.
James Bryce
Winston Churchill
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
(1838 - 1922) was a British politician who served as an ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913. He became especially popular upon writing The American Commonwealth which is a favorable study of the US government.
James Bryce
Winston Churchill
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
(1732-1799) was the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and a Founding Father. Prior to his presidency, he was a general and commander in chief during the American Revolution.
James Bryce
Winston Churchill
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
(1858 - 1919) was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He was a hunter, soldier, naturalist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize who also secured the route for and began construction on the Panama Canal.
James Bryce
Winston Churchill
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
