Our essential question was "How should we define democracy? How democratic was the United States in the early 1800s?" To answer this question, we got into groups and made posters titled "What is Democracy?" First, we analyzed a painting on a county election and read an article that went with it. Then we analyzed two voting charts and read two primary sources. We gathered our notes and put all of our thoughts into small explanations for each document. Then we created the poster.
The result was a poster with the dictionary definition of democracy and then explanations as to how democratic the United States was in the early 1800s based on the documents. Democracy is defined as "a system of government where the power is invested in the people or through freely elected representatives". Our poster shows how the United States circa the early 1800s wasn't very democratic, especially when it came to elections.
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