There are 4 main events that influenced the creation of new state constitutions are the House of Burgesses which was when the first government discussed national level representative government, the founding of Rhode Island for religious freedom from the puritans, the First Great Awakening which was when people finally were able to think for themselves without too much influence from the church, and the statement of John Lock wherein he believed that people had rights under the government.
Between the 1820s and 1850, as more white males won the right to vote and political parties became more organized, the character of American democracy changed. It became more partisan and more raucous, a turn that bred ambivalence and even discontent with politics and the dominant parties.
