For all this talk about women being denied the right to vote in the early 20th century?

Question

When did men get the universal right to vote in the USA,UK and other democratic/republics?

Thought so...

Answer 1

Actually, Victoria, men did have to fight for the right to vote, especially in Europe. For a very long time voting was restricted to those who had substantial property or who were not working class. Servants, farmers, and factory workers didn't get the right to vote until late in the 19th century.

The USA was more liberal than Europe. Any adult citizen had the right to vote (slaves weren't citizens, heck, they weren't even people).

The women's movement was born in New York State about 1844. The struggle took a long time partly because freeing the slaves was considered the more urgent cause. The first state to grant women the right to vote was Wyoming, about 1880, with Utah following soon after.

What's your complaint? That it was a struggle at all?

Answer 2

In the UK there were only TEN years between men and women having the right to vote

http://antimisandry.com/5the-vote

Answer 3

Men had to fight for the right to vote, women and minorities didn't. thought so.......

Answer 4

Not all men could be voters, but voters could only be men.

Answer 5

United States: http://www.edgate.com/elections/inactive...

"1869

  Congress adopted the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. This Amendment took the 14th Amendment one step further by formally granting all men the right to vote, regardless of their race, color, or previous servitude. By using the word men, women were specifically excluded from the right to vote."

"1920

  

On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote. The National American Woman Suffrage Association eventually became the League of Women Voters, a group that is still active today."



"1964 Throughout the earlier part of the 20th century, the Jim Crow laws kept southern blacks from voting, even though blacks had won the right to vote in 1869. Thus, on January 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting states from using poll taxes to keep minorities from voting."

UK:  http://www.hart.gov.uk/index/your_counci...

"    * Early days Originally 2 knights from each Shire (county) were sent to the Commons. These knights were elected by members of the local county courts. They were joined later in the Commons by 2 representatives from each Borough (town), although borough representation was not obligatory.

    * By 1430: Only owners of freehold land worth over 40 shillings a year were eligible to vote in county elections. In boroughs qualification varied from each male head of household to those paying local taxes or to those who possessed property. This continued for over 400 years. By the end of the eighteenth century only 2% of the population could vote.

    * 1832: The Reform Act saw the redistribution of parliamentary seats to new cities and a change in the property qualification on voting. A uniform franchise was introduced in the boroughs giving the vote to those who paid more than £10 in rent or rates. Property qualifications also applied to those entitled to vote in rural areas. Only one man in seven now had the right to vote.

    * 1867: The Second Reform Act extended the franchise enabling virtually all men living in urban areas to vote. This added approximately 1.1 million men to the existing electorate of 1.4 million.

    * 1872: The secret ballot was introduced, initially as a temporary measure which was subject to annual review. It was established as a permanent measure in 1918.

    * 1884: The Third Reform Act gave men in rural areas the same franchise as those in the boroughs. The electorate now totalled over 5.5 million.

    * 1918: The Representation of the People Act gave women the right to vote, but only those over 30 years old. The electorate increased from 8 million to 21 million.

    * 1928: The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act lowered the voting age for women to 21 years old.

    * 1969: The age limit for voting was reduced to 18 years old for men and women. "

Answer 6

Men did not have to fight for that right. Only women and minority men had to fight for that right. Thought so..........

Answer 7

In the UK, most men could not vote until quite late in the 19th century.  Until the first Reform Act of 1833, only about one British man in twenty had the vote.  The franchise was increased again in 1867 to include virtually all men in towns and extended the franchise in the country, but excluded poor agricultural labourers.

In 1884, the Third Parliamentary Reform Act granted universal suffrage to males in town and country, some 2 million farm workers got the vote.