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The Nineteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the ...
Tennessee: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1839. Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [10] 1840.
1874: There is a referendum in Michigan on women's suffrage, but women's suffrage loses. [3] 1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California.
As soon as women gained the right to vote, they began pressuring Congress to eliminate provisions which automatically reassigned women's citizenship upon their marriage. [74]: 1464 In 1922, the Cable Act was passed which guaranteed women independent citizenship if their spouse was eligible for naturalization. [32]
Feminism. Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [ 2] The demand for women's suffrage began to ...
The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, " Married Women's Independent Nationality Act ") was a United States federal law that partially reversed the Expatriation Act of 1907 . (It is also known as the Married Women's Citizenship Act or the Women's Citizenship Act ). In theory the law was designed to grant women their own national ...
The Fifteenth Amendment ( Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, [1] as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments .
Senate Democrats are seeking to highlight Republicans' resistance to legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments ...