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Only white property owning males or white male taxpayers had the right to vote
"Before 1800 the right to vote was extremely limited to only specific people. In the original thirteen states, New England and the Southern states, voting was only extended to property owning white males or white male taxpayers."
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States get the power to set voting requirements.
In 1789, the states are granted the power to set voting requirements. Many states limited this right to white property-owning or taxpaying males. -
Kentucky extended the right to vote to all white males.
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By 1820, most of the states except for Rhode Island, Virginia, and Louisiana extended the right to vote to all white males.
"By 1820, most of the original 13 states had fallen into uniform with the others, extending the right to vote to all white men. However, with all things, there are always those who lag behind in progress, in this case it is three states: Rhode Island, Virginia, and Louisiana. These states did not extend their voting until much later, but by 1840 most of the country had followed, and 90% of white males could vote."
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The Seneca Falls Convention was held to discuss the problem of women's rights.
"In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights."
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The 19th amendment to the constitution was ratified.
"But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship."
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage
