suffrage to any citizen that met the voting qualifications. Women first gained the right to vote via the vague wording in the voting clause‚ in the New Jersey Constitution of 1776. The voting rights acts of 1790 and 1797 explicitly indicated that women had the right to vote‚ though each law affected a different area of New Jersey. Then in 1807‚ there was a voting act which revoked the right to vote for women. The varying laws about women’s suffrage in New Jersey from 1776 until 1807 resulted
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Why did women get the vote in 1918? The government had a problem because men fighting in the war would not be able to vote in the election. The government changed the law so that the soldiers could vote. Women’s groups saw their opportunity and began to put pressure on the government to include votes for women in the changed law. David Lloyd George‚ the Prime Minister‚ was a supporter of women voting but not the use of violence. The Suffragettes stopped campaigning in the beginning of the war and
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year that Henry Ward Beecher and Lucy Stone formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. Both groups fought for the right to vote until they merged in 1890 and became the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Susan B. Anthony was named president and began to lead the movement towards gaining the right to vote. People were opposed giving women the right to vote for many different reasons. Companies that made alcohol feared women would put the Prohibition Amendment into action‚ making alcohol
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gaining votes for women. The WSPU used militant tactics to try and help gain women the vote adopting the slogan ’Deeds not Words’; the NUWSS tried more constitutional peaceful methods in their fight for suffrage. The NUWSS was formed in 1893‚ Millicent Garrett Fawcett was the organizations president. The organization was a women only group who wanted to fight for suffrage. The WSPU was first thought to have revived the suffrage campaign‚ not only making a radical contribution to gaining votes for women
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same-sex marriage in first vote London (CNN) -- UK lawmakers took a big step Tuesday toward legalizing same-sex marriage‚ an issue that has prompted widespread rebellion within Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party. In a 400-175 vote‚ MPs approved the second reading of a bill legalizing such marriage‚ indicating a significant majority of members support the measure. However‚ it must go through several more stages before it can become law. The bill faces another vote in the House of Commons
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Was giving eighteen-year-olds the right to vote a mistake? Discuss. I believe that for the time period‚ it was not a mistake to give eighteen-year-olds the right to vote. However‚ I do not believe that the succeeding generations deserve that right. If it was possible to change the voting age back to 21 with a clause allowing younger military‚ students and political party members to vote that would be ideal in my opinion. In 1971 the voting age was dropped to 18. This decision came about during
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Why women vote Oct.8 2012 Similarity and difference between 1940s and 1970s in China about women vote We are so lucky because we live in a relatively democratic society than before. Nowadays‚ everyone have more equal rights than before‚ especially the women. Compare with women in 19 century even the beginning of 20 century‚ we seen live in paradise. At that time women have no rights‚ cannot get education‚ cannot join any work related to politics‚ all the things they can do is housework and take
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Test Outline Questions Democracy: form of government in which laws are made by a direct vote of citizens. Indirect democracy involves elections with candidates often coming from competing political parties. Authoritarian Government: A system of government in which rulers accept unquestionable obedience from those who they rule. Dictatorship: Form of government in which one leader holds absolute power over their state and is unrestricted by law‚ written constitutions or other limits. Negotiate:
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Canada is often referred to as a nation of immigrants‚ however‚ for a long period of time these immigrants came from a limited side of the world. Most people who migrated to the Dominion before the turn of the twentieth century left European nations‚ predominately the British Isles and Western Europe. The pattern of immigration began to shift particularly in the 1890s‚ as it became more likely for southern and eastern Europeans to make the trip. Additionally‚ another notable change in the pattern
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“Women gained the vote due to their contribution during the war” - how accurate is this statement? Before 1918‚ women did not have equal rights. For example‚ they did not have control in their marriages or any reasonable say in how their country was run. Women were seen as too stupid or emotional to make any rational decisions in important political matters. There is much debate over what actually improved views on women enough to allow them the vote in 1918‚ when the government decided that including
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