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There were several concerns that drove the anti-suffrage argument. Anti-suffragists felt that giving women the right to vote would threaten the family institution. [74] Illinois anti-suffragist, Caroline Corbin felt that women's highest duties were motherhood and its responsibilities. [75] Some saw women's suffrage as in opposition to God's ...
Suffragists held rallies and were present during the votes in the legislature. [452] However, efforts to pass a bill were unsuccessful. [453] After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the secretary of state ruled that it applied to women in United States territories. [454]
The "suffragists" of the largest women's suffrage society, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, led by Millicent Fawcett, were anti-violence, and during the campaign NUWSS propaganda and Fawcett herself increasingly differentiated between the militants of the WSPU and their own non-violent means.
Suffragists believed that women in the Virgin Islands had been enfranchised when the Danish extended suffrage in 1915, as at that time the Danish West Indies were their possession. Similarly, as Puerto Ricans were confirmed to be U. S. citizens in 1917, it was assumed that suffrage had been extended there as well with the passage of the 19th ...
Several held voter referendums, but they were unsuccessful until the suffrage movement was revived in the 1890s. [19] Full women's suffrage continued in Wyoming after it became a state in 1890. Colorado granted partial voting rights that allowed women to vote in school board elections in 1893 and Idaho granted women suffrage in 1896.
1918: The jailed suffragists are released from prison. An appellate court rules all the arrests were illegal. [6] 1918: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which eventually granted women suffrage, passes the U.S. House with exactly a two-thirds vote but loses by two votes in the Senate.
Women were again granted suffrage in 1964, [150] [151] [152] and have been able to vote in Afghanistan since 1965 (except during Taliban rule, 1996–2001, when no elections were held). [153] As of 2009 [update] , women have been casting fewer ballots in part due to being unaware of their voting rights. [ 154 ]
Inspired by English suffragists such as the Pankhursts, Massachusetts suffragists began making open-air speaking tours in 1909. Most of the speakers were middle- or upper-class women who were ill at ease addressing crowds of mill workers at lunchtime. As a working-class Irish Catholic with a colorful personality, Foley stood out.