Democracy is the inclusion of a country's people in making key decisions in governmental elections. Recently we started discussing how democracy started to spread in the US. Not only place to place but over time to more and more people in places that already had it. Originally, most places had a legislature that voted on behalf of the people. The few places that allowed their people to vote, voting was limited to white male land owners, as well as payed taxes. If you didn't meet a single one of those qualifications then you were not aloud to vote, so naturally a fraction of the population could make decisions regrding elections. But at about 1832, all states except for one or two had eliminated legislatures, and very slowly over time more demographics could vote. Some of the sources we analyzed included charts of which sates allowed people to vote, the amount of people voting, a document protesting the lack of public voting in Rhode island, and more. We used these documents to put together the chart below.
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