The Rise of Democracy

Most recently in History class we have been learning about democracy in the 1800s and how it came to be in the United States. Our goal for this lesson was to figure out the meaning of Democracy, and how active the system was in the U. S. during the 1800s. More specifically, our essential questions were how should we define and how democratic was the United States in the 1800s? To answer these questions, our groups were given seven pieces of information to analyze and attach to the posters that we would make to help answer these questions. After analyzing the information, my group came up with the definition that democracy is that democracy is a system of government where the power in vested in the people and through freely elected representatives. Also, we came to the conclusion that in the early 1800s, the US was not very democratic, but as the years progressed, it became a more and more democratic country. Below is that final product of my groups poster.