Answer:
Planted the seed for modern Democracy
Explanation:
Ancient Greek civilization emerged during the Classical Era.
At that time, the vast majority of societies were run on a monarchy system. This system gave all the power within the empire to the hand of a single king. The common people have little to no influence in politics.
Ancient Greece was different. They let the people to be involved in the creation of legislations by letting them vote on the type of laws that should be passed within society. This concept which give a lot of the power to the people in politic became the seed that led to the creation of our current modern day democracy.
Answer:
A.
Explanation:
In reality, I bet all the answers are at least partly correct.
But the reason (or excuse) that people often gave was that the voters (no black people of course!) of each state should decide if they wanted to allow slavery.
They called it 'Popular Sovereignty' and it was a twisted argument that we could use a democratic process (voting) to decide that a certain class of people would get no democracy at all, or even be recognized as having ANY rights, like the right to not be owned and murdered.
Answer:
Tensions increased because both sides saw this land as an opportunity to gain more states that would either be free or have slaves. California quickly applied for statehood, mainly due to the large increase in population in California because so many people went there to look for gold. California had to be a free state since its constitution banned slavery. With the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted to the Union as a free state. However, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. It required northerners to help capture slaves that had escaped to the North. This led to increased tensions between the North and the South.
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