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The EFS decided in 1909 to push for the right to vote in the city of New York first, before they fought for the right to vote across the country. [9] Mackay quit as the president of EFS in 1911, stating that she did not have enough time to devote to the project. [10] The Nevada chapter of the EFS was formed by Jeanne Wier in 1910. [11]
[2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]
Territories on the frontier, eager to attract new settlers, also helped expand suffrage. [7] 1821. In 1821, the state of New York held a constitutional convention which removed property requirements for white male voters, but required that "persons of colour" own $250 worth of property, "over and above all debts," in order to vote. White male ...
In New York in 1912, suffragists organized a twelve-day, 170-mile "Hike to Albany" to deliver suffrage petitions to the new governor. In 1913 the suffragist "Army of the Hudson" marched 250 miles from New York to Washington in sixteen days, gaining national publicity.
1910: Emulating the grassroots tactics of labor activists, the Women's Political Union organizes America's first large-scale suffrage parade, which is held in New York City. [3] 1910: Washington grants women the right to vote. [20] 1911: California grants women suffrage. [6] 1911: In New York City, 3,000 people march for women's suffrage. [6]
Under the Duke's Laws in colonial New York, suffrage did not require a religious test but was restricted to landholders. In Virginia , all white freemen were allowed to vote until suffrage was restricted temporarily to householders from 1655 to 1656, to freeholders from 1670 to 1676, and following the death of Nathaniel Bacon in 1676, to ...
The Woman Suffrage Party (WSP) was a New York city political organization dedicated to women's suffrage. It was founded in New York by Carrie Chapman Catt at the Convention of Disfranchised Women in 1909. [1] WSP called itself "a political union of existing equal suffrage organizations in the City of New York."
(That did not happen; the high point of Republican support was a non-committal reference to women's suffrage in the 1872 Republican platform.) [108] The NWSA worked on a wider range of women's issues than the AWSA, which criticized its rival for mixing women's suffrage with issues like divorce reform and equal pay for women. [109]