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AP U.S. Government 1.4 Constitutional Foundations. More American colonists than British residents voted because what?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by voting rights There are also voting
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wrongs but this isn't a place to get into Just
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move along All right More american colonists than british residents
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voted because ofwhat and hear the potential answers Probably requirement
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information age of poll tax All right even though they
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descended from the same family tree american colonists were much
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more likely to branch out and vote than their british
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counterparts across the pond Why Why did americans vote so
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much Well was this discrepancy in voting practices because there
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were no property requirements in america Well actually americans didn't
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throw out property requirements for voting until decades after the
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revolution So the whole of this land is my land
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thing It required some documentation please You know like that
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an option a is out dittemore americans vote than british
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residents because information was more easily obtained America was far
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less developed than britain so information was probably a whole
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lot easier to get over in england The option b
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is out too We're americans more likely to vote because
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the age requirement was lower Well the voting age on
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both sides of the pond was twenty one like a
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grand parent back then so see isn't the answer to
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this age old question was the discrepancy because there was
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no poll tax in america axing people from poland right
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Unfortunately both these countries levied poll taxes of some kind
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an issue that would cause all kinds of conflict in
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the centuries to come So if that puts a nail
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in the coffin for de and that means more american
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colonists voted then british residents because e more americans owned
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land Both britain and the american colonies required voters to
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own some property but there was way more land to
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go around in america than there was in britain So
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he is the correct answer Theoretically individuals who owned property
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had a more vested stake in the community allowing them
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to make or responsible decisions at the poles It wasn't
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until the civil war though that legislators realised how this
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exclusionary tactic might land the u s and all sorts 00:02:10.98 --> [endTime] of hot water
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