JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Universal male suffrage was given in 1848, with the exception of the military who obtained the right to vote in 1945. This was supplemented in 1944 by full universal suffrage, including women as voters.
Detailed explanation-2: -15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870) | National Archives.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first recorded popular elections of officials to public office, by majority vote, where all citizens were eligible both to vote and to hold public office, date back to the Ephors of Sparta in 754 BC, under the mixed government of the Spartan Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first country to grant equal voting rights to all people was New Zealand, in 1893. In most other democracies, women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War. Q. Which was the first country to grant equal voting rights to all its citizens?