What year were woman allowed to vote in the US?

Answer 1

Women were allowed to vote in the USA in 1919. According to Wikipedia: "There was considerable anxiety among politicians of both parties to have the amendment passed and made effective before the general elections of 1920, so the President called a special session of Congress, and a bill, introducing the amendment, was brought before the House again. On May 21, 1919, it was passed, 42 votes more than necessary being obtained. On June 4, 1919, it was brought before the Senate, and after a long discussion it was passed, with 56 ayes and 25 nays. It only remained that the necessary number of states should ratify the action of Congress. Within a few days Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, their legislatures being then in session, passed the ratifications. Other states then followed their examples, and Tennessee was the last of the needed 36 states to ratify, in the summer of 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was an accomplished fact, and the Presidential election of November 1920 was therefore the first occasion on which women in all states were allowed to exercise their right of suffrage."

Answer 2

In the US, women received the right to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920. They first voted in National Elections in 1923.

Women had earlier been allowed to vote in some of the other states. The first instance of a woman voting in America was Lydia Chapin Taft in 1756 who voted in New England town meetings.

From 1790 to 1807 women were allowed to vote in New Jersey, provided they met the land ownership requirement.

Answer 3

It really depends on which country/ State.

In most countries in the world women did not have a voice in their government, interestingly England had Queens but women had no right to vote. In the United States of America all property owners had the right to vote. The leaders of the Colonies understood that property owners would not just vote in things that would unduly burden themselves or others, "A person that can vote themselves money or goods off the backs of others will do so without thought". Women were elected to positions of government as far back as 1766 Katherine Goddard was elected Post Master General of Baltimore, 1776 Abigail Adams is elected to office in Massachusetts, 1872 Victoria Claflin Woodhull is a United States Presidential Candidate. The right to vote of women has always been the same as for men. A man couldn't vote without property as well.

Counter-point:

In the United States, women gained the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, long after the requirement that men own property to achieve voting rights, and more than fifty years after African-American men were granted suffrage by the Fifteenth Amendment.

Susan B. Anthony was criminally prosecuted for voting in the 1872 election. In Minor v. Happerset, (1875), the US Supreme Court declared the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment didn't extend voting rights to women. In 1878, Congress proposed a constitutional amendment granting women suffrage; the proposal was voted down for forty-one consecutive years.

While it's true that Katherine Goddard served (although not by election) as the first female Postmaster General of Baltimore, she is notable for being an exception to women's exclusion from political office.

Abigail Adams, likewise, was not an elected official but was appointed, along with Mercy Warren and Massachusetts Governor Winthrop's wife, Hannah, to a special assignment on the Massachusetts Colony General Court in 1775. The women were directed to question other Massachusetts women who were accused of remaining loyal to the Crown on the eve of the American Revolution.

Finally, although Victoria Woodhull was nominated as a presidential candidate by the small and newly formed Equal Rights Party in 1872, she didn't meet all the constitutional qualifications for holding office. In addition to being a woman, she was also under 35 years old, a requirement mandated in Article II of the Constitution. Most men believed her candidacy was illegal.

Belva Lockwood, who was over the age of 35, also ran for President in the 19th century, and faced similar obstacles.

The fact is, women were not treated as equals, but achieved political and economic power only after a long struggle, a point driven home by the fact that the previous writer can only cite a handful of exceptions to real conditions.

Answer 4

On August 18, 1920, the nineteenth amendment was ratified so that women could be allowed to vote. In the mid-nineteenth century, many women lobbied, marched, and committed civil disobedience in their fight to have the right to vote.

Answer 5

The passage of the 19th Amendment in the United States gave American women the right to vote. Although it was passed by Congress in 1919, it was ratified in August of 1920. The women's suffrage movement began in the 19th century.

Answer 6

"The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each of the states and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920."

-Wikipedia