What changes in American society facilitated the rise of democracy?
What will be an ideal response?
Between 1800 and Andrew Jackson's candidacy in 1828, American culture and politics were transformed. Democracy appeared to suffuse every aspect of culture and politics. Whereas in 1800 most states had some type of property requirement for voting, within three decades most of these restrictions had been swept aside. Many of the new Western states that entered the Union in the intervening years adopted constitutions with no property requirements. As population shifted westward, the nation's center of political gravity also shifted. Many of the politicians who dominated the national scene came from Western states such as Tennessee and Kentucky, not the older, settled regions such as Virginia and Massachusetts.
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a. Confucian. b. Ming. c. Buddhist. d. Manchu.