Which statement best describes how American government compares to the one that existed in ancient Athens? Both governments used
random selection to choose citizens to serve in the legislature. Both governments eventually gave the right to vote to women and enslaved people. Both governments encouraged citizens to participate in the decision-making process. Both governments allowed citizens to vote directly on nearly every important decision.
Philadelphia was pulled off by her captors and taken to Tripoli harbor, where she represented not just a humiliating defeat, but also a potentially serious threat to American warships and commercial shipping in the Mediterranean sea.
<h2><em>In 1789, food shortages and economic crises led to the outbreak of the French Revolution. King Louis and his queen, Mary-Antoinette, were imprisoned in August 1792, and in September the monarchy was abolished.</em></h2>