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By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage. [10] Maryland passes a law to allow Jews to vote. [11] Maryland was the last state to remove religious restrictions for voting. [12]
1913: Illinois grants municipal and presidential but not state suffrage to women. [6] 1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only. [3] 1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3]
To get the word male in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of the country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign...During that time they were forced to conduct fifty-six campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns to get State constitutional conventions ...
[297] [298] While that measure did not pass, Cotnam was able to persuade the Governor to call for a special legislative session in 1917. [299] During this session, a bill to allow women to vote in primary elections was passed. [300] Arkansas became the first state that did not have equal suffrage to pass a primary election law for women. [301]
In February 1916, the Joint Legislative Committee was able to convince the state legislature to submit a presidential suffrage bill, however, it did not pass the state senate. [130] In 1917, another presidential suffrage bill was introduced, but never made it out of committee. [130]
Colorado : first state in the union to enfranchise women by popular vote. [37] 1895 South Australia: universal suffrage, extending the franchise from property-owning women (granted in 1861) to all women, the first colony in Australia to do so. Women were also granted the right to stand for election.
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
September 3: The 1912 Ohio suffrage amendment does not pass. [7] A law is passed in Ohio allowing individual municipalities to choose if they wished to grant women's suffrage within their city. [34] An umbrella group, the Franklin County Women's Suffrage Association (FCWSA) is formed. [35] The Woman's Suffrage Party of Montgomery County is ...