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Women were allowed to vote on the measure, however, only 4% of them did so. [ 170 ] Brewers and distillers, typically rooted in the German-American community, opposed women's suffrage, fearing – not without justification – that women voters would favor the prohibition of alcoholic beverages . [ 171 ]
The Dorr Rebellion takes place in Rhode Island because men who did not own land could not vote. [15] 1843. Rhode Island drafts a new constitution extending voting rights to any free men regardless of whether they own property, provided they pay a $1 poll tax. Naturalized citizens are still not eligible to vote unless they own property. [15] 1848
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
Learn about the history of voting rights in America, including when women were allowed to vote and why voter access is still an important issue today.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West. [13] [25] A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate. [26]
Most historical evidence shows that ordinary women did not have much interest in the right to vote before the first World War and also after suffrage had been granted to women. [ 17 ] The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League was established in London on 21 July 1908.
Women's clubs, including the Alpha Suffrage Club, worked together to get women to vote. [153] More than 200,000 women were registered to vote in Chicago alone. [152] [154] When the Nineteenth Amendment was going out to the states for ratification, some states wanted to become the first to ratify. [155]