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.