Andrew Jackson

The history class started a new lesson on Andrew Jackson . The essential question  that summed up this lesson was, " Is Andrew Jackson's long-standing reputation as 'the people's president' deserved? Why? Why not? " to help better comprehend this question, the class was divided into  groups and each group was assinged a strategy  Andrew Jackson used during his presidency ruling. Other groups were assinged Indian removal or spoil system. The Indian removal was a law Jackson passed that removed the Native Americains from  the Southern states of America. The spoil system is practice where a political party gives government jobs to voters and supporters after electional victory.  My group chose the bank war as a topic which was about the United State's national bank. In the 1800s, United States' national  bank was the only bank. Since this was the only bank at the time, it controled credit and the economy by controlling trade. Jackson believed that the bank's great power would cause harm to the country  and  his goal was to create smaller banks. Jackson wanted to destroy the bank but then reflected because the bank was the only  bank that gave paper money actual value. To answer, the essential question, I do not think that Andrew Jackson's reputation should be deserved because he  teared members of his country apart when making the Native Americains move off the land. he did not acknowledge the fact that they did not know where they were going. Also, the spoil system  favorited only the loyal government supporters. Lastly,when Jackson  got rid of the first national bank, aware that it was going to cause an economic collapse

The Rise of Democracy

The class started a lesson called the rise of democracy. Democracy is a form of government that provides people an equal oppurtunity to vote for whomever or whatever they want. While studying this lesson, students learned that the United States did not have a great democratic system in the early 1800s. They had a democratic republic which was when the leaders of the state voted for people of the state. This system was made up of Caucasian men who had most freedom and rights. To better understand the democratic rebublic the class was divided into groups and was assinged to create a project that answered the essential questions which were "how should we define democracy?" and how democratic was the United States in the early 1800s?" Completing these projects helped enhance the comprehension of students in the class on democracy.

This is a link guides you to my group's project 

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=5MqTv16

This photo visually presents the property and tax paying requirements to vote