**✪✪✪✪✪ http://www.theaudiopedia.com ✪✪✪✪✪**

What does UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE mean? UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE meaning - UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE definition - UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE explanation. What is the meaning of UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE? What is the definition of UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE? What does UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE stand for? What is UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE meaning? What is UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE definition?

Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license.

Universal manhood suffrage is a form of voting rights in which all adult males within a political system are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification. It is sometimes summarized by the slogan, "one man, one vote."

In 1789, Revolutionary France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and, although short-lived, the National Convention was elected by all men in 1792. It was revoked by the Directory in 1795. Universal male suffrage was re-established in France in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848.

In the United States, the rise of Jacksonian democracy from the 1820s to 1850s led to a close approximation of universal manhood suffrage among whites being adopted in all states by 1856. Poorer white male citizens gained representation; however,p tax-paying requirements remained in five states until 1860 and in two states until the 20th century. The expansion of suffrage was largely peaceful excepting the Rhode Island Dorr Rebellion. Most African-American males remained excluded; though the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, upheld their voting rights, they were denied the right to vote in many places for another century until the Civil Rights Movement gained passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Congress.

As women began to win the right to vote in the late 19th century and early 20th century, the goal of universal manhood suffrage was replaced by universal suffrage.