Rise of Democracy

This week in class, we have been learning about the rise of democracy in the United States. The question we were to answer was, “How should we define democracy? How democratic was the United States in the early 1800s?”. The first thing we did to do this was to establish the definition of democracy, in order to have a concrete meaning to go off from when taking down notes. After this, we made notes from various sources, which ranged from art to charts and quotes. With the notes we made, we composed a poster. On the poster, shown below, are the sources we analyzed, as well as the actual analysis as to how democratic the United States was in the early 1800s.