In 1842, Thomas Wilson Dorr led the Dorr Rebellion to challenge Rhode Island's restrictive voting laws, which limited the vote to property-owning men under the state's 1663 charter. Although Dorr's attempt to establish a new government failed and he was imprisoned for treason, the movement forced the state to adopt a new constitution in 1843 that ended the property requirement for most native-born men and restored voting rights to Black men. The Old State House in Providence, where the conflict centered, still stands as a symbol of this important struggle for voting rights.