Politics and Democracy by Tim Cooke

Author:Tim Cooke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

The restrictions on who could vote changed when states gave all white males over the age of 21 the right to vote. In the late 1820s, President Andrew Jackson introduced what is known as Jacksonian Democracy. In this program, virtually all white men were allowed to vote. Jackson increased the power of the president and federal government, giving them powers that had previously belonged to the individual states.

American women had no political representation, despite Iroquois women having had equal voting rights in their tribes from as early as 1654. The new territory of Wyoming gave women the vote in 1869. The right for most women to vote in national elections only came with the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

Britain and its Empire

In Great Britain, suffrage became an important political issue in the 1800s. Parliament passed a series of three separate reform acts in 1832, 1867, and 1884. The acts extended the right to vote for adult males. As late as 1918, however, only 58 percent of British men could vote.

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