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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]
By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage. [ 25 ] Voter turnout soared during the 1830s, reaching about 80% of adult white male population in the 1840 presidential election .
A law passed in 1807, however, excluded women from voting in that state. [21] Kentucky passed the first statewide woman suffrage law in the antebellum era (since New Jersey revoked their woman suffrage rights in 1807) in 1838 – allowing voting by any widow or feme sole (legally, the head of household) over 21 who resided in and owned property ...
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]
[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]
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 ...
The state of women's ability to vote in different elections continued to be challenged in the courts in New Jersey. In 1893, a law passed in the state allowed any freeholder, which could include women, the right to vote for local road commissioners. [63] Women's right to vote for the road commissioners was challenged through the case, Allison v.
However, a suffrage amendment did not pass the House of Representatives until May 21, 1919, which was quickly followed by the Senate, on June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby went into effect, on August 18, 1920.