Lesson 16: Democracy in America Primarcy Source Lesson
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will analyze and interpret primary source documents with regard to the struggles of American Democracy from 1815-140
What "obvious reasons" exclude women, children, non-citizens, and slaves from the right to vote?
How do the Philadelphia memorialists link their claims to the legacy of the American Revolution?
How similar are the definitions of political freedom in the two documents?
HS.SS.2C - 2C. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and reasoning.
Students will read an excerpt from The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" and "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement" and analyze the impact of the right to vote on Americans.
DOK 2.
Students will be guided through this excercise by the teacher.
Two readings in Foner.