Restrictions On Voting

In the thirteen colonies, voters had to either own a specific amount of land or individual property, or paid a stated amount in taxes. A huge problem with that is this only allowed around seventy of white males to vote. But because of this reason, cities only had a percentage of forty to fifty percent. However, there were other restrictions on voting, which include religion. For example, Catholics and Jews were both banned to vote in some colonies. Right after the American Revolution, some states, replaced property qualifications with taxpaying requirements. This obviously caused a huge problem, and started the principle of “no taxation without representation”. While, other states on the other hand, let anyone who had served in the military