Title: why were women not allowed to vote? | Yahoo Answers
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why were women not allowed to vote?
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Content: Slaves and freedmen could not vote either. Aristotle thought that slaves and women were naturally inferior and fit only to be ruled by men, and probably a lot of ancient Greeks agreed with him. In European countries that adopted a democratic form of government, none allowed women to vote, and in many countries the franchise was very limited even for men. Most British men did not get the vote until the 1860s for instance, at the time of the American Revolution, only one British man in twenty had the vote. When the declaration of Independence was drawn up, few people took seriously the idea of including women in it. Abigail Adams urged her husband to "remember the ladies" but he did not agree with her. Some women did have the vote in New jersey for a short time after the Revolutionary war, because the franchise was extended to everyone who onwed property above a certain value, which included some single women and widows (married women could not own property in their own right). However, after a very rowdy election in the early 1800s, there was electoral reform and New jersey women lost their voting rights. The campaign for women's votes did not really take off in the USA until the mid-nineteenth century. However, many people opposed it, women as well as men.