Learning Objective: Use prior knowledge, evidence from text and documents to determine

How Democratic was Andrew Jackson?

Looking at the Roots

• Aristos = “best”• Theo = “by God”• Ploutos = “wealth”• Demos = “by the people”

• Merit = “worthy”• Kleptes = “thief”• Mob = “crowd of people”• Monarkhia or mono = “one”

• Rule by the nobility• Rule by church leaders• Rule by the rich• Rule by the people• Rule by the most capable

• Rule by thieves• Rule by bunches of people

• Rule by one person

Which of the following would an “honest-to-goodness” democratic

have to support?• Voting rights for all adults• The right to run for political office• Equal income for all working adults• Complete freedom of speech • Civil disobedience (breaking laws you think are

unjust)• Add your own additional criteria

As we read, underline examples that could be used to answer the question: “How Democratic was

Andrew Jackson?”

Jackson’s View of Democracy

• “Democracy meant that all branches and agencies of the government – the President, the Congress, the National Bank, even the Supreme Court- must listen to and follow the wishes of the people.”

Bucketing Directions

1. Quickly read the titles of the documents.2. Group the documents by topic.3. Give each bucket or topic a name.

Bucketing Your Documents Look over all the documents and group them into buckets by topic. Why did you group the documents as you did? What commonality do they share? Write bucket titles under each bucket and place the letters of the documents in the buckets where they belong. It is all right to place a document in more than one bucket. Remember, your buckets are going to become your body paragraphs. We may also refer to the “bucket” categories as analytical categories in the future.

Topic #1 Topic #2 Topic #3 Topic #4 __________ __________ __________ __________

What observations can be drawn about this political cartoon?

What inferences can be made about the author’s intent?