Answer:
non-property-owning men
Explanation:
After the American revolution, there was a rise of political parties and with it an expansion of voting rights for white men. After the war was over, many states retained some property requirements for one to vote, as a way to prevent poor people from voting.
At that time, Republicans believed that citizens were required to have an economic stake in society in order to be trusted to vote wisely. If a voter did not have economic independence, the voter would be manipulated to vote in a certain party.
But with the construction of many industries, laborers started to get money and buy things. Because of that, economic status disappeared as a foundation for citizenship and by 1840 90% of adult white men could vote.
benjamin franklin championed the north american participation in the enlightenment especially through his use of experimentation using the scientific method to resolve questions about are natural surroundings and physical forces.
In a general sense, media such as radios and newspapers greatly "connected" the American public and made people focus on the same issues, since a large majority of the population was "tuning in" to the same broadcasts and reading the same papers.
