1. Democracy In Colonial America

2. What do YOU know about Democracy?
Take 2 minutes and write down what you know about democracy.
With the person next to you, share what you wrote about democracy.
With your partner, take 2 minutes to come up with a definition for democracy.
As a pair, share what you have written with another pair around you.
What did you come up with?

3. Democracy
Government by the people; A form of government in which the supreme power is given to the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected officials under a free election system.

4. Democratic Government vs. Undemocratic Government

5. Democratic Nations
Represents The People!

6. Democratic Nations
Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Tonga, United States

7. Don’t Agree with Democratic Practices or Ideals…
Undemocratic Nations
Don’t Agree with Democratic
Practices or Ideals…
SINGLE RULE GOVERNMENT
Authoritarian, Oppressive, Tyrannical (Tyrant), Absolute (Monarch),
Despotic (Despot), One-Party

8. Undemocratic Nations
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Bhutan, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Swaziland, Nepal, Malaysia, Cameroon, China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Syria, Central African Republic, Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Myanmar (aka Burma), Kazakstan, Libya, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Egypt, Eritrea, Haiti, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nepal

9. Democratic Government vs. Undemocratic Government
In your spiral, brainstorm for 5 minutes about how life would be similar and different between a democratic and undemocratic country.
Take 3 minutes to share what you have written with three people around you.
What did you come up with?

10. Your Task
Examine, analyze and answer questions from SIX primary source documents from colonial America.
Identify and discuss two democratic and two undemocratic features of colonial America.
Explain how American democracy was a “work in progress” in colonial times.
Write an essay to support your findings.