Which of the following describes the political developments taking place in America during the first two decades of the nineteenth century? Most newly organized free states granted the right to vote to adult black men who owned specified amounts of freehold property. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York expanded suffrage to all free adult black males. After they requested it, several Middle Atlantic states granted women voting rights in local elections. Ordinary white men's rising political status was accompanied by a decline in the political rights of women and free blacks.