Rise of Democracy

Most recently in history class we learned about the rise of Democracy and how it was adopted in the United States. Our essential questions for this topic were, How should we define democracy?and, how democratic was the United States in the early 1800s? To answer these questions we first came up with our own definition of what we though democracy is. The definition that we came up with was, a democracy is a political system in which the people vote for their rulers, and sometimes the laws, that will make their community and nation a better place. Then we analyzed 6 documents that had to do with democracy in the U.S. We took notes on these documents and used those notes to answer the essential questions as well as create a presentation about democracy in the 1800’s that explained each one of the documents. My group used Prezi to present our information.