Friday, December 5, 2014

The Growth of Democracy

Essential Question: How should we define democracy? How democratic was the United States in the early 1800's?

In history class, we researched a lot of documents to understand the essential question that we had to answer. First we came up with a definition for democracy. Our definition is: a form of government that gives a say to people and allows them to cote. a system of power where he system is vested in the people. We were told to look at some documents and make a poster. One of the documents showed the amount of taxes that the people of the United States had to pay. The chart clearly shows that the taxes went way up during the early 1800's. They also went down after about 1830. Another document was a painting that we had to analyse. Our group came to the conclusion that the more wealthier people where up near the judge voting while the poor people where down near the bottom. They also seem very happy though. The project our group had to do was create a poster with all of the documents on it. Our poster helped answer the essential question. Our poster looked pretty presentable.








Our Poster (sorry for upside down photo) 

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