JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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Question
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Western states had more college-educated women than the eastern states.
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Women outnumbered men in states west of the Mississippi River.
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The important roles played by frontier women promoted equality.
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A majority of western states had legislatures controlled by women.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women of the West were the first in the United States to enjoy full voting rights. As new territories and states organized, many considered, and most granted, women the right to vote. Decades before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, western women voted and served in public office.
Detailed explanation-2: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eventually suffragists won the political support necessary for ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. For 42 years, the measure had been introduced at every session of Congress, but ignored or voted down. It finally passed Congress in 1919 and went to the states for ratification.
Detailed explanation-4: -For 50 years before the adoption of the 19th Amendment, women in Wyoming had full voting rights. For 50 years before the adoption of the 19th Amendment, women in Wyoming had full voting rights.