UNIVERSAL MALE SUFFRAGE

TIME LINE

• 1800s white male taxpayers and landowners
• 1820s every white male over 21
• 9 of 13 extended suffrage rights
• By 1840 90% white male could vote

CHANGES MADE

• Taxpayers and landowners
• Dropped landowner requirement
• Some states kept tax or reduced
• Required involvement in militia
• Every white male over 21

PUBLIC OPINION

• Political competition
• *not over equalinesss or fairness
• War of 1812
• If able to fight, have a say whose in office
• Ben. Franklin, poor white males, andrew j.

ADDITIONAL INFO.

• Kentucky
• Rhode island, Virginia, Louisiana
• Voting increased 3x b/w 1820-40
• 90% of white males could vote

SOURCES

• https://sites.google.com/site/universalmalesuffrage/expansion-of-voting-rig...