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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Anonymous
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Content: 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. Some women thought that politics was not a suitable concern for women, the idea of 'seperate spheres' was very popular at that time, and the notion that a woman should devote herself to home and family was very widespread (of course, many women had to work from economic necessity). There was a general belief that politics would be too much for the delicate female temperement. There was also a lot of opposition to the women's franchise in the USA from the liqour industry, because they were afraid that if women got the vote Prohibition would result, since a great many women were actively involved in the Temperence movement (far more than were involved in the women's suffrage campaign). Some of the western states gave women the vote in the late 19th century because they wanted to attract female settlers. ...Show more
wickstrom
Lv 4
5 years ago
Women Should Not Vote
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