JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
ELECTION OF 1824
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Question
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white males
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White males and females
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white men who owned land
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any free person who owned land
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage.
Detailed explanation-2: -1789: The Constitution grants the states the power to set voting requirements. Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males (about 6% of the population). 1790: The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited citizenship to “free white persons."
Detailed explanation-3: -When the United States first won its independence, there were restrictions on who could vote. In some states, only white male landowners that were at least 21 years old could vote. Beginning in 1870, a series of Constitutional Amendments and other laws have extended voting privileges to more and more citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Fifteenth Amendment (ratified in 1870) extended voting rights to men of all races.