The Rite Kind Of Freedom?

Our Poster. The early american voting system was judged with a one to five star rating. Also just to clarify, I know the title has the wrong form of right in it, but the title of the poster had Rite in it, so I had to put it in the title.

This week, our lesson was based on the early American democracy. For this lesson, we incorporated the essential question, "How should we define democracy? How democratic was the United States in the early 1800s?" The definition that our group came up with was, A government system in which the power is distributed among the law abiding citizens, of said country, by the system of voting, in which they have the opportunity to choose their political leaders and representatives. For our poster we analyzed several sources about voting rights in the early 1800's. Our sources were a painting created by George Caleb Bingham about voting, a quote about voting by Benjamin Franklin and Norton Townsworth, two charts about the percentage of people with the right to vote, and a excerpt from the Dorr War. All of the evidence seemed to support the state of democracy in 1800's except for the except from the Dorr war, and the two quotes.