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In 1920, women received the right to vote in the United States with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
In colonial America, only white males who owned property, and were over the age of 18 were allowed to vote.
United StatesIn the United States, yes. The Nineteenth Amendment ratified on August 18, 1920 gave all women the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment ratified on February 3, 1870 had given African American men the right to vote. However, poll taxes, literacy tests, threats, refusal to allow voter registration and other obstacles in the Southern States prevented African Americans from exercising that right for almost one hundred years.South AfricaIn South Africa, no. White women were given the right to vote in 1930, but black women were not given the right to vote until the end of apartheid in 1994.