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July 12, 2026
The Right to Vote in Early America
As part of the recent celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence you may have been reminded that at the founding of the country only white male landowners, a mere 6% of the population, had the right to vote. This is not entirely correct. In some states other people with property could vote, a right stripped away from people of color and women who had exercised it in the early decades.
Under 10 Minutes
Watch
Ephraim Hagerman and Free Black Voters in 1801 New Jersey
When Women Lost the Vote Exhibit Introduction
Read
Center for Voting and Democracy
Who Voted in Early America? - Colonial Williamsburg
Chapter 1.0. Voting Rights in Early America, Introduction – American Legal History to the 1860s
When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story - Museum of the American Revolution
Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
