Voting rights in America in the early 1800s was a complicated process because many politicians and government leaders supported slavery, limiting voting rights to people who were legally free. Women were thought of as secondary citizens, so their civil liberties, such as the right to vote, didn’t receive a fair amount of attention. Socioeconomics and land ownership were also big factors in determining who could vote, so the poor working class didn’t have many political freedoms either. Voting privileges were primarily granted to wealthy, white men.
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