It is a vote that comes directly from the people hence direct democracy.
Northerners had many politicians that didn't essentially care about reconstruction or African-Americans. They just went south to get into positions of power because the political area was open for newcomers since the old politicians in the South were the racists who led to the war. As they weren't that interested, the ideas of democracy soon ended and the policy of separate but equal was established which still enabled racism and segregation only in a legal manner.
Most people were engaged in agriculture as in the U.S. in 1820. They farmed to feed and clothe themselves; in other words, they engaged in subsistence agriculture. Most people did not own land. The land was owned by a few, such as hacendados or the Roman Catholic Church.
There were export sectors in economies. Exports were of two basic kinds: agricultural and mineral. Argentina and Uruguay exported cattle hides and salted beef. Bolivia exported silver and mercury; Peru: silver and, later, guano; Colombia: precious metals and sugar; Brazil: sugar and, later, coffee; and Mexico: silver, gold, and cotton. Most of these exports went to Europe. Little went to each other. None of it in huge volumes even in Argentina until the late 19th century. The countries lacked capital, communications networks, and technology to develop the export business. Besides, the upper class was able to meet its needs without much economic expansion. Societies were run for the benefit of the upper classes.
Feudalism is the denomination of the predominant political system in Western Europe of the middle centuries of the Middle Ages (between the 9th and 15th centuries), and in Eastern Europe during the Modern Age, characterized by the decentralization of political power; based on the diffusion of power from the top (where in theory were the emperor or kings) to the base where local power was exercised effectively with great autonomy and independence by an aristocracy, called nobility.
