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How did the differences in landownership impact voting power in the early eighteenth century?

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The majority of landowners were men, so not many women voted. There were more white landowners than black land owners in the colonies, resulting in the fact that African Americans were unable to vote. An influx of new colonists from Spain and France purchased land, as a result, they made a larger voting population than the British colonists. 
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