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Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848

Expanding Democracy

Explain why states replaced property tests with white manhood suffrage from 1800 to 1848, how mass parties grew with it, and who was shut out.

Topic 4.7 · 13 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Why property was the old rule
  2. 02How the vote changed, state by state
  3. 03Democracy for white men, and narrower for others
  4. 04Mass parties for a mass electorate
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points

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