Rise of Democracy

The essential question from class was, How should we define Democracy? How democratic was the United States in the 1800's? To learn more about this topic in class we looked at pictures of county elections are learned what people where able to vote during the time period, which happened to be white male land owners. We also looked at how people voted in the 1800's. In the early 1800's people were mostly elected by the legislature, but in the 1836 every state but South Carolina the President's electors were by people and not by the legislature. Hopefully, from what we learned in class we can answer the essential question.

Andrew Jackson, "The People's President"?

The essential question from class was. is Andrew Jackson's long standing reputation as "the people's president" deserved? Why? Why not? To learn more about this in class we watched a number of videos, including John Greene's crash course and Ted-ED. This videos included the topics of the Bank War, Spoils system and the Indian Removal, we learned about these topics to further our knowledge of how Andrew Jackson handled controversial topics like the Indian removal and how he dealt with problems like the Bank war and the Spoils system. 

Our Project!!:
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ieW08p94fU4ZfEJFVK71SKw2Xy2k7y3mrzS5XX45S_4/edit#slide=id.g54c00edfc_079  

The Latin American Revolutions

The essential question from class was,  Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? How are the events in the Latin American Revolutions evidence of this social imperative? To learn more about this in class we did a time line of the Brazil,Gran Colombian and the Mexican revolutions then shared them with classmates. Next we made a jigsaw and found two similarities and two differences between revolutions.

In class we were assigned to make a timeline about the Brazilian revolution our timeline was, Brazil

1789 elites in the captaincy of Mina's ferias revolted 

1807 and 1808 Napoloeon invaded Portugal and severed the connections between Portugal and Brazil 

1815 John VI elevated Brazil to the status of a kingdom 

1821 John left Portugal and his 23 year old son Pedro remained as the Prince 

1822 September 7th Pedro declares Brazil and independent kingdom

1825 Portugal recognize  Brazils independence 

1826 many citizens opposed the new constitution

1825-28 struggles with Argentina erupt into the cisplantine war 

1831 wide spread opposition to his rule, Pedro abdicated his throne and returned to Portugal. The revolutions had both similarities and differences, the differences we noticed about the three revolutions were the fact that the revolutions took place in different time periods and all of the revolutions included different types of people. The two commonalities we found between the revolutions were the goal of all three revolutions was to receive a constitution and all the revolutions happened to end around the same time period. Race was an issue of all three because all of the revolutions happened when the Spanish had control in said country. All of the revolutions were lead by people who were enslaved and wanted a constitution. After learning more about these revolutions I realized that race as been an issue for a long time and people need to find a way to fix it. 

An example of judgement being based on race is the issue in Ferguson. The people of Ferguson believe that the boy was shot because of his race which happened to be black. I don't know the whole story but I don't think the officer made the decisions to shoot just because he was black.  Another example of judgement based on race is the Muslim situation. The reason I think this is an issue because some people think that all Muslim are all bad and they all have bad intentions. I think that this is an issue that needs to be fixed because people need to realize that not all Muslims are bad, and that some are against the extremist. I think the issue of race is still a problem because people need to learn that everyone is the same no matter what religion, race or beliefs in god.