5.28

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=Identify the changes in voting qualifications between 1787 and 1820 (e.g., the abolition of property requirements), and compare who could vote in local, state, and national elections in the U.S. with who could vote in England, France, and Russia. =



See United States Government.5.2 for more on voting in the American system of government
[|A brief overview] of the evolution of voting in America

[|Ted-Ed video] detailing the evolution of voting rights in America

===[|Voting in Early America]from Colonial Williamsburg provides a concise look at the changes in voting qualifications between colonial America and 1820.===

1787 - States decide voting qualifications - Each state is empowered by the federal government to create their own voting laws - voting is subsequently restricted to land-owning, white men. 1790 - [|Naturalization Act of 1790] - defines citizenship as "any alien, being a free white person" - limits voting to free white men - many states still require property qualifications - some states, such as New Jersey and Pennsylvania, remove free black voting rights around this period as well - [|The End of Black Voting Rights in Pennsylvania] - New Jersey also allowed some women to vote until 1807 - [|RETHINKING WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN NEW JERSEY, 1776-1807] 1820s - Many states, some as early as 1796, began to [|remove the property qualifications for voting] - still only white male suffrage


 * Voting in England in the late 18th and early 19th century. **


 * Image below is a British satire showing Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. **


 * Voting in France: and politics in Napoleon's time. **

** [|Napoleonic Code] (1804) ** while declaring rights of all citizens severely restricted rights for women.


 * [[image:Female_Rose.png]]Click here for information on [|women gaining the right to vote in Europe]in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.**

[|Video] about black women's suffrage in early America

**Voting in Russia**
- There were no voting rights within the Russian empire from 1787 to 1820. - In fact, a majority of Russians were kept as slaves, called serfs, which were [|emancipated in 1861]
 * -** Russia in the late 18th century was ruled by a monarchy dominated by the [|Romanov dynasty]