The colonists and early Americans
got the idea that only male land owners should vote from England. Voting in England during pre-1832 was
dependent on three criteria – sex, age and property. Only men over the age of
21 were allowed to vote – and only if they owned property over a certain value.
It was essentially a way of making voting a rich man’s privilege, reinforced by
small boroughs having more MPs than larger counties, which were predominantly
inhabited by poorer workers. The Great Reform Act in 1832 broadened the
spectrum of voters to include the likes of landowners and shopkeepers as part
of the property criteria. The constituency boundaries were rearranged to make
representation less unfair and householders paying more than £10 in annual rent
were also given the vote
A Glacier is a sheet of ice that moves slowly over land.
At the time the U.S. goals were westward expansion so do to the fact that they were expanding the people who were moving out west were taking over Native lands which caused a war to break out. Not to mention the fact that the english settlers who came to the "New World" brought deadly diseases to the Natives.
Many of the racist white journalists claimed that he won only because he was black and was therefore possessing an animal-like instinct, which was unfair to the white competitor. They were extremely racist but it was accepted because it was the 30s, way before the civil rights era.
