Rise of Democracy

Democracy should be defined as a form of government in which all legal citizens have the right to vote, and all votes have value. The votes may have direct or indirect impact. In the 1800's only white, male property owners were allowed to vote, and voting was not a structured process.

We created a video that accurately portrays the system of government of the United States and how it changed during Andrew Jackson's presidency.

Latin American Revolutions

In class we talked abot the Latin American Revolutions, and were given a question to think about.  This question was, "Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? How are the events in the Latin American Revolutions evidence of this social imperative?" In order to better understand this, we created a timeline of events that reflected the Latin American Revolutions, where the impact on their success was shown.

We were assigned to Gran Colombia's history of their revolution, and we created a timeline accordingly, as shown below.
1810- bolivar is part of junta conspiracy for liberation of Spain 

1811- Caracas National Assembly declares Venezuelans independence 

1812- spanish take over Caracas again

1813- return to Venezuela and beat spanish when he takes over Caracas 

1814- lost Caracas again

1817- he is back in Venezuela and build an army

1819-Bolivars small army crosses flooded tributaries of Prinoco

August 1819- spanish army surrenders at Boyaca, and enters bogota three days later. Republican de Colombia is proclaimed

1821- bolivar wins a battle at Carabobo

1822- Antonio Jose de Sucre wins battle at Pichincha

1830- bolivars rule ends and Ecuador and Venezuela secede formally from Gran Colombia

Some commonalities that we discovered while investigating were that all three revolutions were successful, as well as finding out that all three countries wanted their own constitutions .  Differences that we found in them was that Gran Colombia divided up into multiple other countries when they gained independence, but the other countries stayed together.  Another difference was that all three were not in the the same time period, and were run by different people of different races.  Even though these three countries all took different paths to achieve their independence, race was a problem for all of them, as they desperately wanted to be respected and be their own people, but the foreign enslavers thought of them as lower than everyone else.

These racial judgements are made every day on people's race, and there are millions of new examples created every day.  One example is of the recent events in Ferguson, MO, where a black teenage boy was shot and killed by a white police officer. This is a demonstration of racial judgement because people are outraged by it and think that others think it is okay for a white person to shoot a black person and get away with it.  Another example of racism is the judging of muslim people by whites of America.  this is because of many terrorist attacks by Islamic radical groups targeting the USA.  I really don't think we should even consider race in our society anymore, because eventually we will all mix into one race based off of the blending of cultures and peoples around the world.  Race is just something to categorize and segregate people with, and as long as it continues there can never be universal equality, which is what people yearn for.