ツSuffrage during the Age of Jackson?ツ?
If you had to write an essay on this topic:
What were the major arguments used, pro and con, in the debate over expanding suffrage during the Age of Jackson?
What arguments would you have used? I wrote an essay about it, pretty confident--but was wondering if I used the same arguments everyone else did.
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From Shmoop History on the Jacksonian Era:
Pro:
Jacksonianism is usually associated with a celebration of the common man, and was especially popular in the western frontier regions. It is a very anti-aristocratic political philosophy, and Jackson and his party benefited from the move towards universal male suffrage in the early nineteenth century, when states revoked the property requirements that had been necessary to obtain voting rights in the past.
Con:
Only property owners had something at stake and were educated enough to vote.