History of the United States I / Unit 10 USH1 1362 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Property Qualifications Fall
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The idea
Many state constitutions had imposed property qualifications as a means to keep democratic tendencies in check, and the newer states abandoned them.
In practice
Indiana in eighteen sixteen, Illinois in eighteen eighteen, Alabama in eighteen nineteen, and Mississippi in eighteen thirty-two.
Where people slip
New York removed its property qualification in eighteen twenty-one, and by that decade eighty percent of its White male population could vote.
Your place on the trail
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