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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.
By the end of 1919, women effectively could vote for president in states with 326 electoral votes out of a total of 531. [259] Political leaders who became convinced of the inevitability of women's suffrage began to pressure local and national legislators to support it so that their respective party could claim credit for it in future elections ...
Women could vote from 1945, but only if literate. Restrictions on women's suffrage were lifted in 1965. [87] Guinea: 1958 Guinea-Bissau: 1977 Guyana: 1953 Haiti: 1950 Kingdom of Hawaii: 1840–1852 Universal suffrage was established in 1840, which meant that women could vote.
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 early ...
White and African American women in the Territory of Alaska earn the right to vote. [33] Women in Illinois earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [27] 1914. Nevada and Montana women earn the right to vote. [22] 1917. Women in Arkansas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [22] Women in Rhode Island earn the right to vote in ...
However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully); see 1919 in New Zealand. 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]
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
The states ratified the 19th Amendment granting women the constitutional right to vote in 1920. This expansion of rights came in an otherwise conservative era when courts and legislatures across ...