Question

How did voting laws change in the 1820's? How did these changes affect the number of people who voted? (

Answer 1

Four of the fifteen post-Civil War constitutional amendments were ratified to extend voting rights to different groups of citizens. These extensions state that voting rights cannot be denied or abridged based on the following: "Race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (Fifteenth Amendment, 1870)

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Answer 2

You didn't have to own land.During the 1810s and 1820s, many states rewrote their constitutions. The new state constitutions expanded the electorate by abolishing the property requirement. In most states, any white man who paid a tax could vote and hold office. These changes increased participation in elections. Male voter turnout that had been less than 30 percent in the elections of the early 1800s reached almost 80 percent in 1840.