Women have a history of voting in the United States that stretches back to the early republic, as some states allowed women to vote and New Jersey was the first to recognize women's right to vote in its constitution and laws. In the late 1800s, women pursued three strategies to secure the right to vote nationwide: seeking a broader interpretation of the 14th Amendment, changing individual state laws, and passing a constitutional amendment to override state laws prohibiting women from voting. It took several decades of activism and the 19th Amendment in 1920, but women were finally guaranteed the right to vote across the United States.

1. Woman and the right to vote

2. • It’s often tough that’s the
amendment was necessary
because the Constitution
prohibited women from
voting

3. • But American woman actually
have a history of voting .
• Stretching back to the early
republic .
• Under the constitution, voting
was handled by the states
• Some allowed white Woman’s to
vote

4. • Some had property requirement several states allowed free blacks to vote
and one state , New Jersey, made history
• By recognizing the right of women to vote a first in recorded human history
, it’s no accident that’s Women votes in America before anywhere else .
• Our country was founded one the self -evident , gender—neutral truth of
human equality and the consent of the governed.

5. Was just the first state to apply the
principle to its state constitution
and laws.
New Jersey limited the vote to
white property-owning males it
wasn’t until 1848.
The first convention of Woman’s
rights meet in Seneca falls, New
York .
New Jersey

6. Women in the late 1800s pursued

7. 1. A broader interpretation of the
14th amendment.
2. Changing individual state laws.
3. A constitutional amendment to
override all state laws
Three separate
strategies for securing
women’s suffrage

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