• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Look in to the men’s suffrage movement, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky were the only three states to have full adult suffrage for white males before 1800.

    18th century property qualifications:

    Connecticut: an estate worth 40 shillings annually or £40 of personal property

    Delaware: fifty acres of land (twelve under cultivation) or £40 of personal property

    Georgia: fifty acres of land

    Maryland: fifty acres of land and £40 personal property

    Massachusetts Bay: an estate worth 40 shillings annually or £40 of personal property

    New Hampshire: £50 of personal property

    New Jersey: one-hundred acres of land, or real estate or personal property £50

    New York: £40 of personal property or ownership of land

    North Carolina: fifty acres of land

    Pennsylvania: fifty acres of land or £50 of personal property

    Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: personal property worth £40 or yielding 50 shillings annually

    South Carolina: one-hundred acres of land on which taxes were paid; or a town house or lot worth £60 on which taxes were paid; or payment of 10 shillings in taxes

    Virginia: fifty acres of vacant land, twenty-fives acres of cultivated land, and a house twelve feet by twelve feet; or a town lot and a house twelve feet by twelve