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They met new people, shared ideas, and learned new skills.
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In early America, democracy was limited to a small social group within the nation's population: only white men with a certain economic status could make their voices heard at the dawn of the United States as an independent nation. On the contrary, the poor, blacks and women did not have the right to vote, and their opinions were therefore not admitted when forming the popular will through elections.
