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March Pauline Wells from Brownsville started the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. [29] The Texas Woman Suffrage Association is renamed the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA). [2] The annual convention was held in Dallas. [24] A Texas chapter of the suffrage group, the National Woman's Party is created. [3]
One of the most active leaders in the anti-suffrage movement in Texas was Pauline Kleiber Wells who was from Brownsville, Texas. [40] Pauline Wells was married to a powerful Democratic Party "boss," James B. Wells, Jr. [40] Pauline Wells began to campaign against women's suffrage in Texas in 1912. [40]
Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South. [17] [18] Women in Utah get the right to vote. [23] 1875. Minor v. Happersett goes to the Supreme Court, where it is decided that suffrage is not a right of citizenship and women do not necessarily have the right to vote. [24] 1876
The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
Women in Texas did not have any voting rights when Texas was a republic (1836–1846) or after it became a state in 1846. [394] Suffrage for Texas women was first raised at the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 when Republican Titus H. Mundine of Burleson County proposed that the vote be given to all qualified persons regardless of gender ...
1918: President Wilson declares his support for women's suffrage. [6] 1918: Women in Texas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [28] 1919: Michigan grants women full suffrage. [3] 1919: Oklahoma grants women full suffrage. [3] 1919: South Dakota grants women full suffrage. [3]
Amid predictions by some proponents of this strategy that the South would lead the way in the enfranchisement of women, suffrage organizations were established throughout the region. Anthony, Catt and Blackwell campaigned for suffrage in the South in 1895, with the latter two calling for suffrage only for educated women.
The Tyler-Texas treaty, signed on April 12, 1844, was framed to induct Texas into the Union as a territory, following constitutional protocols. To wit, Texas would cede all its public lands to the United States, and the federal government would assume all its bonded debt, up to $10 million.