History Opinion Poll Results

 Well last week's poll wasn't as interesting to everyone as the ones about cave men. 

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School has been in full swing for a month now, and as usual History is the most fascinating subject! Even if you are not homeschooling, be sure to sprinkle in a little history to your day every day-- ancient, local, family, inventions, fashion, individuals, words, or even food history!

History Opinion Poll-- The Vote

 I'm sorry I missed last week! Here are the results of the Writing poll: 

Most of you agreed with my opinion, and that is that we may never know all the writing that was done by ancient man!

This week's new History Opinion poll is about the Vote. You can choose more than one answer. I have given you many to choose from, but am sure that everyone will have a viewpoint so leave a comment! There are some TRUE and a lot of FALSE on this one as well, see if you can spot my assumptions! I read up on this subject, and it made for an interesting home-schooling-over-breakfast conversation for the older kids in the family. I highly recommend looking into the history of one of our most cherished freedoms.

Voting

Voting: “At the time of the first Presidential election in 1789, only 6 percent of the population–white, male property owners–was eligible to vote.” (according to https://web.archive.org/web/20160706144856/http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html) Do you think that the founding fathers only wanted property owners to vote because:

They were racist, sexist, prejudiced bigots

Geo. Washington had a vendetta against some tenants who trashed one of his rental houses

If you were smart enough to own land, you were smart enough to vote

Abigail Adams was sneaking in a way to make sure farmer's wives had their say in an oppressive regime

If you paid property taxes, you ought to have a greater say in what was going on

Land was cheap back then and most people owned their homes.

It would ensure westward expansion as more people sought land for the voting rights

You are so ignorant-- property could mean things other than land, even under colonial voting laws!

The founding fathers did not specify landowners and did not give us any rights to vote in the constitution.

Voting rights were left to the states to decide, not the founding fathers

Other (leave a comment in the post)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States

https://theconversation.com/the-right-to-vote-is-not-in-the-constitution-144531

Quote in the poll is from: https://web.archive.org/web/20160706144856/http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html

New History Opinion Poll

 The first History Opinion poll did well I think!

The subject was CAVE MEN:
“Primitive people were wild animals. Unlike other wild animals, however, they walked on their hind legs.” -A Child's History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer 1924
Thinking about ancient man, do you think your great-great-great-great-(and on and on) grandfathers were:

 Thank you to all who took the poll!

My next one is on the history of WRITING. We've heard the experts; now give your opinion! By the way, I have made it an option that you can choose more than one answer if you think several of the options apply to you. If you don't see your opinion here, leave it in the comments!

“PEOPLE of the Stone Age had learned how to talk to each other but they could not write for there was no such thing as an alphabet or written words and so they could not send notes or messages to one another or write stories.” -A Child's History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer 1924 

 

WRITING: "PEOPLE of the Stone Age had learned how to talk to each other but they could not write for there was no such thing as an alphabet or written words and so they could not send notes or messages to one another or write stories." -A Child's History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer 1924 Thinking about mankind and communication, do you think ancient man:

Was too stupid to figure out the need to write & how to do it.

Was the inventor of systems of writing that are lost to us.

Was not in need of writing things down because they had a fool-proof oral/running messenger system.

Could only communicate in pictures

Used hieroglyphics as a secret code and had an everyday mode of communication

Cave Paintings were actually graffiti

Even if writing was available, only the rich could learn how

I'm an ignorant peasant, go make up your own alphabet and don't ask such questions to make me discontent with my station in life

Other

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Here's a bonus for my blog readers, another excerpt from the book.

“But there was no paper in those days and so the Egyptians wrote on the leaves of a plant called papyrus that grew in the water. It is from this name papyrus that we get the name paper...The Egyptians books were written by hand of course but they had no pencils nor pens nor ink to write with. For a pen they used a reed split at the end and for ink a mixture of water and soot.”

-A Child's History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer 1924

History Opinion Poll

To celebrate Back To School time, I thought I would put up a series of History Opinion Polls. I have put in plenty of options to choose from, if you don't see your opinion just put it in the comments! 

I found an old history book for children, and boy did it make me think... now I would like to know what you think!

CAVE MEN 

"Primitive people were wild animals. Unlike other wild animals, however, they walked on their hind legs."

-A Child's History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer 1924 

Thinking about ancient man, do you think your great-great-great-great-(and on and on) grandfathers were:

Cave Men who had just emerged from monkeys

Stupid in general and their lives weren't worth living-- everything we need to know we have learned in the last 200 years.

Much more ignorant than we are, yet smart enough to figure out how to mine & melt metals...hmm...

Just as smart as we are, but in different circumstances and technology

Smarter than we are-- I wouldn't survive an hour among the dinosaurs!

Very healthy-- everything they ate was organic

We'll never know because all the evidence is buried pretty deep.

I don't see it here-- I'll tell you in the comments

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