In New Jersey, the one state that had allowed women property holders to vote, women lost the right to vote. Twelve states forbade paupers from voting and two dozen states excluded felons. After 1830, interest in voting registration increased.
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Similarly, black men held office for the first time right after the Civil War while women of all ethnicities' political opportunities, right to have property, and rights to divorce took decades longer to achieve than that of black men.
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Confidence votes 46. Because in those days it was thought that women where feeble minded and not mentally capable of judging who to vote for. It was also thought that if they got the vote they would not concentrate on their chores and looking after the childeren. it took woman so long to vote because no one had enought courge to stand up for them self but one day some one had more then enouge courge to have a boycott.
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Although, constitutionally, women should receive the same rights as men, many women are still reduced in scope and pay. The 19th amendment was passed by Congress June 4, 1919 and it gave women the right to vote but this has not increased women to equality with men.
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Women’s Suffrage. In 1848, at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling for women’s suffrage. But it would take seventy-two years before most American women could vote.
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Today, a handful of states bar convicted felons from voting unless they successfully petition to have their voting rights restored. Another controversy—currently being discussed in San Francisco—is whether non-citizens should have the right to vote, for example, in local school board elections.
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And when our English tradition began to develop a representative system of government, though only men (at least usually) could vote at first, please note that for a long time only a small proportion of men had the right to vote. Owning property was the first big requirement.
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You might find it interesting to ponder why the first Americans-Indians-did not get the right to vote until 1924.
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Women got the right to vote in 1919, a half century later. Even though former female, white abolitionists … had organized and fought diligently alongside black male and black female abolitionists, several famous black male abolitionists abandoned the suffragettes in order to achieve their vote first.
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The Constitution and Voting Rights. The US Constitution left the issue of voting rights up to the states. The only thing that the Constitution said about voting was that those entitled to vote for the “most numerous Branch of the state legislature” could vote for members of the House of Representatives.
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why did it take so long to give women the right to vote?
It took so long to give women the right to vote because no one had enough courage to stand up for them self.