Expanding suffrage and appeals to ordinary people meant that increasingly ordinary people became government officials, ew Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky for the first time placed racial restrictions on voting, and New Jersey in 1807 closed a loophole that allowed some widows to vote.
Expanding suffrage and appeals to ordinary people meant that increasingly ordinary people became government officials, especially in the North. At the same time, states such as New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky for the first time placed racial restrictions on voting, and New Jersey in 1807 closed a loophole that allowed some widows to vote.