Before the mid-1800s, women had few rights. What they owned belonged to their ..... when they married. In the mid-to late 1800s, women got some rights. Some states allowed married women to own property. Some states passed laws that gave rights to divorced women.

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Before the mid-1800’s, women had few rights. What they owned belonged to their ____ when they married. In the mid-to late 1800’s, women got some rights. Some states allowed married women to own property. Some states passed laws that gave rights to divorced women.

A	children
B	parents
C	husbands
D	brothers

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Women did not have the power to make contracts, own property or vote. A woman was seen merely as a servant to her husband. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, that began to change when many bold, outspoken women championed social reforms of prisons, war, alcohol and slavery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women were not allowed to vote. Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation. Married women had no property rights. Husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the early nineteenth century, married women in the US were legally subordinate to their husbands. Wives could not own their own property, keep their own wages, or enter into contracts.

Detailed explanation-4: -May 15, 1869: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which coordinated the national suffrage movement.

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USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE