Hi today I will be blogging about  the fall of the Berlin wall demonstrated democracy.
The wall between East and West Germany symbolized a lack of freedom under communism. It also symbolized the inner conflict of Germany and the division of free and democratic. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.    http://adst.org/2013/11/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-november-9-1989/      link

Hi today I will be writing about how democracy relating to Woodrow Wilson's statement during WWI. He stated "The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy". When Woodrow Wilson called for war he intended it to be to save the democracy that was left in the world. Here is the link . This larger purpose for war, as well as an explanation of its causes, was grandly defined by President Wilson on April 2, 1917 when he delivered his war message to Congress. It was in this address that he performed one of the most difficult duties of the executive branch asking the representatives of the American people to declare war.

Democracy in relation to the Gettysburg Address

I will be writing today about the Gettysburg address and how it changed Americas view on democracy. I used this article. The speech talked about how to keep democracy alive. The phrase " Government of the people , by the people , for the people , shall not perish." Is a very powerful statement indicating that we as a nation should try to keep democracy alive. He was fighting to keep the union together to have a more united government. 

Hi my name is Jason. My topic for this blog is democracy. In the early republic there wasn't democracy in any recognizable form. The founding fathers didn't believe in democracy in the fullest way. Even though they wanted to be liberated from England they didn't want the people to run things entirely. This link further explains my reasoning for why the founding fathers didn't follow democracy. They believe that that democracy couldn't go for the long run. They wanted to protect minorities.

Colonies

Hi this is Jason. As  you remember from  my previous topic I chose democracy. Some had more democratic forms of government, like town hall meetings (I think already mentioned), like in New England. But democracy as we know if did not exist. Of course women could not vote, even free Blacks could not vote. In many places only landowners, nobody who rented or anything like that could vote. Only certain religious groups could vote in some colonies, or others were excluded. Catholics could not vote in some colonies, but ruled in Maryland. I'm not sure if some groups like the Quakers took part in politics, or at least until they got involved in the slavery issue.

http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/lesson_5_notes.htm

Welcome

Its Jason. My history teacher has told us to blog about a specific theme. I have chosen to write about democracy. I picked it because it is related to the US. This link addresses the current state of democracy in America. It is very critical of the system, especially the ability of corporations to donate money to political campaigns. This makes politicians less responsive to voters than donors. I don't like this because it gives me less of a voice in public affairs.