285 Elections in Early America: Elections & Voting in the Early American Republic

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Independence from Great Britain provided the former British American colonists the opportunity to create a new, more democratic government than they had lived under before the American Revolution. What did this new American government look like? Who could participate in this new American democracy? And what was it like to participate in this new democracy? Scholars Terrance Rucker, a Historical Publications Specialist in the Office of the Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Marcela Miccuci, a curator at the Museum of the American Revolution, join us to investigate the first federal elections in the United States and who could vote in early U.S. elections. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/285 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 107: Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison’s Hand 🎧 Episode 151: Defining the American Revolution 🎧 Episode 179: George Van Cleve, Governance During the Critical Period 🎧 Episode 202: The Early History of the United States Congress 🎧 Episode 203: Joanne Freeman, Alexander Hamilton 🎧 Episode 260: Creating the First Ten Amendments 🎧 Episode 277: Whose Fourth of July REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:02.7	Omaha Institute. Hello and welcome to episode 285 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:18.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:26.0	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:29.0	Independence from Great Britain provided the former British American colonists the opportunity to create a new
0:35.3	more democratic government than Americans had lived under before the American Revolution.
0:40.6	What did this new American government look like?
0:43.0	Who could participate in this new American democracy?
0:45.5	And what was it like to participate in this new democracy?
0:49.5	These are big questions.
0:51.5	There are also the questions we'll explore in the second of four episodes about the origins
0:56.0	of early American elections and voting practices.
0:59.3	Now the founders of the United States wrote constitutions to establish governments on both the state
1:03.7	and national levels. These constitutions often laid out the offices each
1:07.6	government would contain and the requirements for those who wish to represent the
1:11.2	people and hold those offices.
1:14.0	Where constitutions bring government structure, elections bring them to life.
1:18.9	So to help us better understand the early national governments of the United States,
1:22.6	and the elections that brought them to life,
1:24.8	we're going to consult with Terence Rucker.
1:27.8	Terence is a historical publication specialist
1:30.3	in the Office of the Historian of the United States House of Representatives.
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