America’s dignity heavily falls on being the world’s oldest democracy. During the nineteenth century, democracy meant for male suffrage. However, a few Latin American nations expanded the right to vote for free blacks and indigenous population before the United States. During the triumph of democracy, many laws were being placed on this expansion of democracy in the states. For example, men who could not meet the requirements insisted that they were as fit as others to exercise the rights of citizens. Those who were free and participated in the constitution of their political institutions had the right to vote without any restrictions. But during that time, only North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia refused the idea of letting free people to vote without the proper requirements. Eventually all states accepted the idea of free voting, but Rhode Island still refused. The Age of Jackson made a huge impact on how America lives today. Democracy reinforced the equality among those who participated in the political nation. In the book, GIVE ME LIBERTY, author Eric Foner, Professor of History at Columbia University, states, “As democracy triumphed, the intellectual grounds for exclusion shifted from economic dependency to natural incapacity” (358). Meaning that America has shifted their ideals to natural incapacity, which means that America had a handicap or a defect during a specific time. America wanted “equality” and it has always been an obsession. However, there was a huge difference when racial democracy played during the expansion of democracy. Racial democracy put the African Americans in a dishonest community. This unfair right affected the boundaries of the political nation from progressing into a “equality” nation. In the Election of 1824, John Quincy Adams and Andrew
America’s dignity heavily falls on being the world’s oldest democracy. During the nineteenth century, democracy meant for male suffrage. However, a few Latin American nations expanded the right to vote for free blacks and indigenous population before the United States. During the triumph of democracy, many laws were being placed on this expansion of democracy in the states. For example, men who could not meet the requirements insisted that they were as fit as others to exercise the rights of citizens. Those who were free and participated in the constitution of their political institutions had the right to vote without any restrictions. But during that time, only North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia refused the idea of letting free people to vote without the proper requirements. Eventually all states accepted the idea of free voting, but Rhode Island still refused. The Age of Jackson made a huge impact on how America lives today. Democracy reinforced the equality among those who participated in the political nation. In the book, GIVE ME LIBERTY, author Eric Foner, Professor of History at Columbia University, states, “As democracy triumphed, the intellectual grounds for exclusion shifted from economic dependency to natural incapacity” (358). Meaning that America has shifted their ideals to natural incapacity, which means that America had a handicap or a defect during a specific time. America wanted “equality” and it has always been an obsession. However, there was a huge difference when racial democracy played during the expansion of democracy. Racial democracy put the African Americans in a dishonest community. This unfair right affected the boundaries of the political nation from progressing into a “equality” nation. In the Election of 1824, John Quincy Adams and Andrew