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Raye-Smith, a professor and editor of the Woman Lawyer's Journal, had often been called on to write music for the suffrage movement before she died in 1914. [23] The Detroit Free Press wrote in 1914 that "Since suffrage has become popular and more or less fashionable, the different suffrage societies have spent a great deal of their time ...
The Dorr Rebellion takes place in Rhode Island because men who did not own land could not vote. [15] 1843. Rhode Island drafts a new constitution extending voting rights to any free men regardless of whether they own property, provided they pay a $1 poll tax. Naturalized citizens are still not eligible to vote unless they own property. [15] 1848
Women first registered to vote in 1913 and participated in the state primary elections in 1914. [32] Arizona ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on February 12, 1920. [33] [34] Native Americans in Arizona were excluded from voting due to their citizenship status. [35] In 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act made all Native Americans United States ...
Elections were held for the 64th United States Congress, occurring in the middle of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's first term. Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress, the first time they were able to do so since the American Civil War (1861-1865).
The election was the first of four times in the 20th century in which either party won the House majority without winning the popular vote, with the subsequent three instances occurring in 1942, 1952, and 1996; Democrats won the House majority without winning the popular vote in the former election, while Republicans did so in the latter two ...
In 2016, though Trump won the presidency, Clinton clinched the popular vote by 2.9 million votes, according to a USA TODAY report. Biden won the popular vote and electoral vote in 2020 with ...
On the day of vote, November 2, suffragists stationed themselves at the polls in order to make last-minute pleas for the vote. [59] In the end, women's suffrage was voted down. [59] One bright spot was that for the first time in United States history, a county the size of Allegheny won the suffrage vote. [59]
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