Ancient Athens
Where is Athens?
Greece
How many colonies formed the early U.S.?
13
What is the two-word phrase that defines democracy?
People Power!
What type of democracy was practiced in ancient Athens?
Direct democracy
Name a symbol we saw in the Oval Office that represents something democracy needs.
Books for education, arrows for strength, olive branch for peace, etc.
What kind of government did ancient Athens have?
Democracy
What form of government did the U.S. founders REJECT?
Monarchy
According to Pericles, who has the power in a democracy?
The people
What percentage of the population of the U.S. could vote in 1790?
6%
_______ means working to bring about social change.
Activism
What percentage of Athens's population could vote?
10%
What type of democracy did the U.S. founders choose for our government?
Representative democracy/Republic
According to the Preamble of the Constitution, who has power in American democracy?
We the people
What does it mean to be disenfranchised?
Not having the right to vote
In Euripedes's play, Medea is speaking up for what group of people that are experiencing inequality?
Women
What is the name for the public assembly and market space?
The agora
Who taught the founders of the US about the importance of collective unity?
Hint: They taught that many arrows are harder to break!
Chief of the Onondaga Nation/ the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
In a democracy, how are decisions made?
Voting
Why could the early United States not practice direct democracy?
Too many people/too spread out
What did the Newsies do to make a stand against the newspaper publishers (Pulitzer & Hearst)?
- Go on strike
- Civil disobedience
- Marched down the street
Who gave a famous funeral oration in the agora?
Pericles
What document outlines the benefits of American democracy?
Preamble of the Constitution
Pericles gave his funeral oration speech during what war?
First Peloponnesian War
Can the Constitution change and what are these changes called?
Yes! Amendments.
Who delivered the speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Frederick Douglass