Ancient and modern criticisms of Athenian democracy include the observation that
a. government by the common people equaled mob rule.
b. a system that gives power to people of little talent is bound to fail.
c. the wealthy, whether aristocrats or merchants, dominated political life.
d. a system excluding women and grounded in slavery cannot be a true democracy.
e. all of the above
e
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A. the wars of the French Revolution, particularly those of Napoleon B. the French and Indian War C. the American Revolution D. the Crimean War
In President Andrew Johnson's view, the Freedmen's Bureau was
a. a flawed but necessary agency. b. acceptable only because it also helped poor whites. c. a tolerable compromise with the radical Congress. d. a potential source of Republican patronage jobs. e. a meddlesome federal agency in the South that should be killed.
How did the Allies decide to split up the reparations in postwar Germany?
A) The Soviet Union would take all the war reparations from Germany. B) The United States would take all the war reparations from Germany. C) Each country would take reparations from its own occupation zone. D) Each country would take reparations from every section of Germany. E) No country would take war reparations from Germany.
The Americans violated their alliance with France by negotiating a peace with Great Britain without informing the French
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.