Although the Greek city states all spoke the same language and worshipped the same gods, each polis had their own government systems and values. Athens and Sparta, in particular had opposing values; Athens had a democracy, Sparta had a monarchy, where Athenians prized new ideas, the Spartans stubbornly clung on to the traditional etc. Partially due to Pericles taking advantage of the Delian League to benefit Athens, other city states began to resent Athens and eventually the Greek city states sided with either Sparta or Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
During the Gilded Age, 1876-1900, Congress was known for being rowdy and inefficient. It was not unusual to find that a quorum could not be achieved because too many members were drunk or otherwise preoccupied with extra-governmental affairs. The halls of Congress were filled with tobacco smoke, and spittoons were everywhere. One disgusted observer noted that not only did the members chew and spit incessantly, but their aim was bad. The atmosphere on the floor was described as an “infernal din.” The Senate, whose seats were often auctioned off to the highest bidder, was known as a “rich man's club,” where political favors were traded like horses, and the needs of the people in the working classes lay beyond the vision of those exalted legislators. The Senate dominated the federal government during the Gilded Age. Causing the world to react as if America wasn't under good control.
In other words, the world reacted as America wasn't mature.
The correct answer is: "the Enlightment period".
The Enlighment movement emerged in Europe and was constituted by philosophers that promoted Reason and the scientific method over medieval superstition and religious dogmas, and the establishment of democratic societies where the power resided on its people, and not in monarchs or rulers "appointed by God". The resulting states enacted bills of civil rights for the first time in history, and implemented principles such as the division of powers or the social contract, through which citizens elected their governors by suffrage.
Such Enlightment principles were transferred to the American colonies, where the population claimed for political representation rather than being governed by foreigners that were appointed by a foreign king. Such claims were ignored and, influenced by the new democratic principles, the revolutionary movements for independence aroused.
Tyranny is when a nation is ruled by a cruel and oppressive government like when Hitler was the dictator of Germany, Democracy is what the US has, its <span>a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives, like when we get to vote for president and stuff.</span>
