5. the voting issue

Question 1

Progress in some states

federal political structure =

Answer 1

more opportunity to make progress

Question 2

Progress in some state

individual states grant right to vote to some women e.g.

Answer 2

Wyoming 1868

Utah 1870

Question 3

to test 14th & 15th amendment Susan B. Anthony & 150 women tried to vote
when?
result?

Answer 3

1871 and 1872
Arrested and tried for electoral malpractice
Judge refused them the right to speak.
told jury to find them guilty for violating voting rules. fined them.

Question 4

1875 Legal challenge
Virginia Minor sued state of Missouri for preventing her from voting.
outcome?

Answer 4

Supreme court ruled women not allowed national voting rights but states could give women right to vote

Question 5

suffrage campaigners got 8 states to hold vote on issue. none successful
when?

Answer 5

by 1890

Question 6

Late 1880’s- early 1900s small progress on voting on local issues
drawbacks?

Answer 6

20 states- only widows with school-age children to vote.
Even then hostile crowds prevented women from casting their vote
Attitude of many men- women voting unnatural/ distraction from domestic duties

Question 7

campaign shift?

Answer 7

from democratic argument (that women should have equal rights) to practical advantage (of women being used to looking after households so suitable for dealing with domestic and family issues such as temperance)
Argument that women needed to influence laws to help with working conditions, to ban alcohol, to help with social reform, to be involved in matters to do with raising children.
Not based on ideas of natural justice or inequality