This past week in our honors
history class we studied the rise of democracy in the United States during
1800s. The United States was one of the earliest democratic states in the
world. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible
members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Democracy in the
United States gave some people a chance to help decide how the country would be
run and who would run it. In England no citizens had any power in deciding who
got to rule. There was a king and a queen and their bloodline would remain in
power. United States citizens did not have to deal with the same family for
fifty or more years if they did not like their political views because they can
vote for whom they want.
This chart shows that in 1816 all the states on the chart all voted by legislature and then by 1836 all these states voted by the people except South Carolina. One problem with the early United States democracy was that many states had restrictions on who could vote. Many places had a certain amount of property someone has to own before they can vote.
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