American History?

Question

Since this class only pertains to the U.S. before the Civil War, we can only draw our answers from that period.

"Specify one behavior from the colonial period that can be described as democratic and one that can be described as undemocratic, explaining why in each case."

"Then list and describe 3 different reform movements and their leaders from the 19th century that we studied and explain in each case how the reform movement can be related to the concept of democracy."

Any help would be great, I'm really just trying to find a place to start.

Answer 1

democratic:town meetins, house of burgess
undemocratic:only certain landowning males could vote.

Temperance:Carrie Nation/WCTU....
Abolitionist:Frederick Douglass
education:Horace Mann

and wikipedia.org!

Answer 2

Okay, at least for the beginning ...
The Puritans, especially in such areas as Salem in 1692, were VERY undemocratic. The witchcraft hysteria would never have happened in a democracy. Under strict Calvinism they believed in predestination-ism, and therefore God chose your eternal reward before you were even born.
The (first) Great Awakening was the beginning of the democratic movement because it allowed the individual to choose where they would spend all eternity.