Democracy in 1800's US

During this lesson, our class was divided into large groups to find our own answers to the questions: "How should we define democracy?", and "How democratic was the U.S. in the early 1800s?". As an answer to the first question, my group and I decided that democracy should be defined as a system of government by whole population or all eligible members of a state, typically through elective representatives. To find the answer to the second question, we looked over a series of documents showing what the United States population had the ability to give their say in, and how big decisions were made in the government. By the end of the activity, it was clear that in the early 1800's, the US was not very democratic at all.

In this poster made by my group and I to back
up our answers to the essential
questions, you can find the documents
 I referred to earlier in the post.