Why were poorer citizens excluded from voting until the 1820s?

Answer

Explanation:

Its because they were poor and not given many rights

By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage.

Explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

i would say it is the roman empire europe after the norman conquest.