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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. [9] Maryland passes a law to allow Jews to vote. [10]
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
Poorer white male citizens gained representation; however, tax-paying requirements remained in five states until 1860, in two states until the 20th century, and many poor white people were later disenfranchised. [4] The expansion of suffrage was largely peaceful, excepting the Rhode Island Dorr Rebellion.
In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only white male adult property owners to vote (about 6% of the population). [126] [127] Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky were the three states to have full adult suffrage for white males before 1800. New Jersey allowed women's suffrage for landowners until the early 1800s.
When the U.S. was founded nearly 250 years ago, casting a ballot was reserved for white, land-owning men. ... However, in practice, the 19 th Amendment only expanded the right to vote to white women.
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870 gave African American men the right to vote. The first record of a black man voting after the amendment's adoption was when Thomas Mundy Peterson cast his vote on March 31, 1870 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in a referendum election, adopting a revised city charter. [19]
Looking at males ages 18-29, 42% supported Harris in 2024, while 56% supported Trump. These numbers also slightly differ from 2020, when 56% of men ages 18-29 supported Biden, while 41% supported ...
In 2016, 42% of white Republicans and 24% of white Democrats felt that Black people were lazier than whites. About 58% of white Americans said “little or nothing needs to be done” to ensure ...