The principal that voting represents is right to vote. Amendment #3 and it changed voting by letting everyone vote.
Four main reasons why the U.S was unprepared for war with Britain were that 1) the Continental Army was wildly undertrained 2) the British Army had far more men 3) the Colonists lacked money for war supplies, and 4) the colonists lacked and meaningful military alliances.
The appropriate response is voting. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, sanctioned in 1920, gave American ladies the privilege to vote. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution, approved in 1964, wiped out survey charges, which had lopsidedly influenced African Americans as an obstruction to voting in government decisions.
High tariffs allowed domestic production to expand with little competition