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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).
Most African-American men remained excluded; though the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, upheld their voting rights, they were denied the right to vote in many places for another century until the Civil Rights Movement gained passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Congress.
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.
Voter participation surged as white male suffrage became nearly universal, [2] and a contemporary record of 42.4% of the voting age population voted for Harrison. [3] Van Buren's loss made him the third president to lose re-election. The Whigs did not enjoy the benefits of victory.
On May 12, 1898, after white men regained political leadership from nontraitors, the former confederates adopted a state constitution that disenfranchised its Black citizenry using every ...
While Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes and the popular vote in the election of 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams as the election was deferred to the House of Representatives (by the terms of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a presidential election in which no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote is decided by a contingent election in the ...
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