1828: The Rise Of Democracy In The United States

In 1828 the election had several changes from the ones before. In 1812 more women and men worked in ports and factories, and many didn’t own property. This change inspired people to support workers right to vote. By 1821, 21 of 41 states had already began universal suffrage, allowing all white men to vote. Now this may not seem like that big of a change, because African Americans and women already could not vote right? Not only did they allow all men to vote, but they even began allowing women and free blacks to vote if they owned property in 1824 to 1828. More than a million Americans had voted by 1828, meaning that more than three times as many Americans had voted, than they did in 1824. These effects of all of this led to the changes today,