14. what problems did women face in actually voting

Question 1

old attitudes remained strong

Answer 1

women followed lead of their husband or families

Question 2

Registration was difficult.

Answer 2

married women had to re-register as individuals (rather than having their husbands vote for them) problems in meeting local residency requirements
difficult for women looking after children (husbands away working) to travel to voting stations

Question 3

Political parties created women’s committees (keen to mobilise women voters)

Answer 3

women achieved substantial representation of party committees only in minority of states by 1940s

Question 4

some states slow to amend legislation allowing women women to be candidates for public office e.g.

Answer 4

Oklahoma prohibited until 1942

Question 5

20 years after 19th amendment only __ female governors of states

Answer 5

2 (both standing in for their husbands)

Question 6

many AA women in south could vote in theory but not in practice due to

Answer 6

restrictions such as literacy tests and threat of verbal/physical abuse and harassment. only in 1960s were these obstacles overcome

Question 7

some states both NA men and women

Answer 7

prohibited from voting