only white men who owned property
In the original constitutions of the 13 original states, the right to vote was typically restricted to white male property owners or taxpayers. Women, African Americans, Native Americans, and non-property-owning white men were generally excluded from voting.
Women received the right to vote in the United States on August 18, 1920 Women received the right to vote in the United States on August 18, 1920
Women can vote in all 50 states, but the ability to vote started on a state by state basis.
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The 19th ammendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.
It is no longer necessary to be a man in order to have the right to vote. It is also not necessary to be a white person in order to vote in the United States.
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The United States Constitutions posits that states which refuse to give the right to vote to any of its citizens can be denied representation in the House of Representatives. Yet, despite this clause within the Constitution, African-Americans were denied suffrage in the 1960's. This clause has never been enacted.
It is true that many of the new state constitutions removed the property qualifications for voting. In 1790 in the United States, the only people who had the right to vote were white adult males who owned property.
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Moststate constitutions, in fact, contain language that is even stricter than the First Amendment, prohibiting the state from setting up a ministry, using tax dollars to promote religion, or interfering with freedom of conscience.
The southern states had to allow Blacks to vote and give them more rights in their new constitutions. They also could not vote or represent themselves in politics until they finished their state constitutions and proved their royalty with Lincoln's "Ten Percent Plan."
No. The Constitution only uses the gender neutral "people" or "person" and never specifically mentions either sex, male or female. The Constitution was thus phrased to apply equally to both women and men.Contrary to common opinion, women were not denied the right to vote by the original Constitution--the individual states were left to determine their own requirements for voting. It was at the state level that women were unconstitutionally denied their right to vote. The states lost the power to exclude citizens from voting on the basis of sex with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
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Women demanded the right to vote.
Women's right to vote expanding from Western States to Eastern States
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yes. They didn't have the right to vote.