Examples of Limited Suffrage in the following topics:
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- The movement toward white male suffrage was expanded during Jackson's presidency before the American Civil War.
- Leading up to and during the Jacksonian era, suffrage was extended to nearly all white male adult citizens.
- Ohio’s state constitution placed a minor taxpaying requirement on voters but otherwise allowed for expansive white male suffrage.
- American democracy had a decidedly racist orientation; a white majority limited the rights of black minorities.
- Connecticut passed a law in 1814 taking the right to vote away from free black men and restricting suffrage to white men only.
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- The movement for women's suffrage gained new vitality during the Progressive Era.
- Women's suffrage in the United States was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920.
- Their opposition to women's suffrage was subsequently used as an argument in favor of suffrage when German Americans became pariahs during World War I.
- Anti-suffrage forces, initially called the "remonstrants," organized as early as 1870 when the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Washington was formed.
- This political cartoon about suffrage in the United States depicts four women supporting suffrage on a steamroller crushing rocks labeled "opposition."
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- The term "first-wave feminism" describes the women's movements during the Gilded Age, which primarily focused on women's suffrage.
- It focused on remedying legal inequalities, and especially on gaining women's suffrage.
- Gage, of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), embodied the radicalism of much second-wave feminism.
- The members of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), for example, were willing to work within the political system, and they chose to unite with sympathetic men in power to promote the cause of suffrage.
- The limited membership of the NWSA was narrowly focused on gaining a federal amendment for women's suffrage, whereas the AWSA, with 10 times as many members, worked to gain suffrage on a state-by-state level as a necessary precursor to federal suffrage.
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- Suffrage is typically only for citizens of the country, though further limits may be imposed.
- Suffrage is the right to vote gained through the democratic process.
- Where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by gender, race, social status, or wealth.
- Suffrage is typically only for citizens of the country, though further limits may be imposed.
- Suffrage universel dédié à Ledru-Rollin, painted by Frédéric Sorrieu in 1850.
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- The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island was an uprising of men who wanted to see greater, faster expansion of white male suffrage.
- Those who wished to extend white male suffrage argued that the charter was un-republican and violated the U.S.
- By 1841, Rhode Island was one of the few states without universal suffrage for white men.
- The Charterites, finally convinced of the strength of the suffrage cause, called another convention.
- In September of 1842, a session of the Rhode Island General Assembly met in Newport and framed a new state constitution, which was ratified by the old, limited electorate and proclaimed by Governor King on January 23, 1843.
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- Andrew Jackson expanded suffrage, encouraged settlement of the West, and encouraged the economy through laissez-faire policies.
- Jacksonian democracy was built on the general principles of expanded suffrage, manifest destiny, patronage, strict constructionism, Laissez-Faire capitalism, and opposition to the Second Bank of the United States.
- By 1820, universal white male suffrage was the norm, and by 1850, nearly all voting requirements to own property or pay taxes had been dropped.
- However, because the Free Soil Jacksonians (and most notably Martin Van Buren) argued for limitations on slavery in the new areas to enable the poor white men to flourish, they split with the main party briefly in 1848.
- Like the Jeffersonians who strongly believed in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Jacksonians initially favored a federal government of limited powers.
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- Originally called the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, its name changed to the National Women's Party in 1917.
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contrast to other organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, which focused on lobbying individual states, the NWP put its
priority on passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring suffrage.
- Collaborating with anarchist friends, coined the term birth
control as a more candid alternative to euphemisms such as family limitation.
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she was in Europe, Sanger's husband distributed a copy of her pamphlet, Family Limitation, to an undercover postal
worker, resulting in a 30-day jail sentence.
- Members of the National Woman's Party picket in front of the White House for women's suffrage in 1917.
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- The conflict caused two organizations to emerge, the National Woman Suffrage Association, which campaigned for women's suffrage at a federal level and for married women to be given property rights.
- As well as the American Woman Suffrage Organization, which aimed to secure women's suffrage through state legislation.
- World War I provided the final push for women's suffrage in America.
- In addition to their strategy to obtain full suffrage through a constitutional amendment, reformers pursued state-by-state campaigns to build support for, or to win, residence-based state suffrage.
- Discuss the historical events that culminated with women's suffrage in America
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- Although the Progressive Era brought reform to government and business and increased political power for many citizens, its benefits were limited to white Americans; African Americans and other minorities continued to experience discrimination and marginalization during this era.
- Women became especially involved in demands for woman suffrage, prohibition, and better schools; their most prominent leader was Jane Addams of Chicago.
- Four new constitutional amendments—the Sixteenth through Nineteenth—were prompted by Progressive activism, and resulted in a federal income tax, the direct election of senators, prohibition, and women's suffrage.
- As literacy tests and other restrictions could be applied subjectively, these changes sharply limited the vote by most blacks.
- Furthermore, racism often pervaded most Progressive reform efforts, as evidenced by the suffrage movement.
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- Racism often pervaded most Progressive reform efforts, as evidenced by the suffrage movement.
- Specifically, as women campaigned for the vote, most Progressives argued on behalf of female suffrage as a necessary reform to combat the influence of "corrupted" or "ignorant" black voters in the election booth.
- In addition to internal contradictions that limited the scope and success of Progressives, the movement as a whole lost popular support around the time of World World I.
- Women consolidated their gains after the success of the suffrage movement, and moved into causes such as world peace, good government, maternal care (the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921), and local support for education and public health.
- The work was not nearly as dramatic as the suffrage crusade, but women voted and operated quietly and effectively.