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Women were allowed to vote on the measure, however, only 4% of them did so. [ 170 ] Brewers and distillers, typically rooted in the German-American community, opposed women's suffrage, fearing – not without justification – that women voters would favor the prohibition of alcoholic beverages . [ 171 ]
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.
Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913. Direct election of Senators, established by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators. [32] White and African American women in the Territory of ...
[302] [301] [303] The first time women could vote was in May 1918 during the primary elections and between 40,000 and 50,000 white women turned out to vote. [304] African-American women were barred from voting in the primaries. [305] Arkansas ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on July 28, 1919, becoming the twelfth state to ratify the amendment ...
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
To have their names removed from the list of qualified voters, Oscar Leser and others brought suit against the two women on the sole grounds that they were women, arguing that they were not eligible to vote because the Constitution of Maryland limited suffrage to men [96] and the Maryland legislature had refused to vote to ratify the Nineteenth ...
This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative. To that end, HuffPost Women has partnered with Rock The Vote, and more than 50 other women's media brands for a cross-brand effort to encourage and help women across the country to register to vote. Because, quite simply, #OurVoteCounts.