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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.
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
The colony of South Australia allowed women to both vote and stand for election in 1895. [4] In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the Age of Liberty between 1718 and 1772. [5] But it was not until the year 1919 that equality was achieved, where women's votes were valued the same as men's.
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.
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 ]
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 ...
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]
Vermont: Married women were granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4] Nebraska: Married women granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] Florida: Married women were given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1882. Lindon v.