JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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Which of the following statements is an example of how voting rights were expanded in the early 1800’s?
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Maryland set religious qualifications for voters.
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Some states extended suffrage rights to more white males.
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Party leaders began to nominate their parties’ candidates.
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Massachusetts granted one-half of a vote to each literate freedman.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The 26th Amendment, ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age for all elections to 18.
Detailed explanation-2: -The murder of voting-rights activists in Mississippi and the attack by white state troopers on peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama, gained national attention and persuaded President Johnson and Congress to initiate meaningful and effective national voting rights legislation.
Detailed explanation-3: -An adult resident citizen of state.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 15th Amendment, passed after the Civil War ended, gave all eligible male Americans the right to vote.
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