November 18, 1790.
Explanation:
In 1970 This election statute was passed by the New Jersey Assembly, granted voting rights to women in New Jersey and concerned only seven counties mainly located in West Jersey (out of thirteen New Jersey counties). In 1790 the legislature chose again the pronouns “he” or “she” clarifying that both men and women had voting rights. But only single women could vote because married women could not own property. Still, many unmarried women voted in New Jersey in the 1790s and the very early 1800s.
HOW DOES THIS COMPARE WITH NEIGHBORING STATES?
The criteria were different from one state to the other. The diversity of American experiences in expanding or restricting voting qualifications also concerned free African Americans,2 Amerindians and aliens. Virginia and the Carolinas were the only colonies that prevented free African Americans from voting at the beginning of the eighteenth century. North Carolina granted them voting rights back as early as 1737, while Georgia did the contrary in 1761. During the revolutionary period, Massachusetts studied the possibility of suppressing voting rights for African Americans and Amerindians susceptible to pay taxes but, in the end, Massachusetts legislators did not make that change in their constitution of 1780. At that time, five states – New York,3 Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts –, restricted the vote exclusively to men: the terms “males” and “sons” were used in their respective constitution, which was not the case in the Constitution of New Jersey.
19th century view of a woman’s role and how did this ideal of womanhood influence attitudes about suffrage?
During the 1870s, suffragists (women’s suffrage activists) began attempting to vote at polling places and filing lawsuits when their attempts were rejected. This drew attention to the women’s rights movement, particularly after Susan B. Anthony was arrested and put on trial for voting in the 1872 presidential election. Suffragists hoped that the lawsuits would work their way up to the Supreme Court, and that the justices would declare that women had a constitutional right to vote. In 1875, the Supreme Court, in Minor v. Happersett, rejected women’s suffrage, ruling that the US Constitution did not confer the right of suffrage to anyone.
After the Supreme Court ruling, leaders of the women’s rights movement adopted other strategies for securing universal suffrage. Activists began organizing a drive to pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. The National American Woman Suffrage Association launched a campaign to achieve victories at the state level, in the hopes that if enough states allowed women the right to vote, federal legislation would follow. These efforts were so successful that by the time of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, over half of all states had already granted limited voting rights to women.
