Why It Took So Long for Women to Get to Vote

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Mr. Beat explains the long and difficult struggle for women to get the right the vote, while looking at the ridiculous justifications folks used to make for women to NOT vote. The 19th Amendment passed 100 years ago on August 18th.

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This month marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. That’s the Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that finally gave women the right to vote, aka women’s suffrage. In other words, finally every adult could vote. Hey Ellie, can we take a look at it? I just want to show for the folks. That’s my cat, Ellie, over there. I’m trying to train her to help me out with these videos. Yeah just click that button.

There we go. Thanks! "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

It’s simple enough, right? But it still blows my mind that it took so freaking long. I mean, 1920. That’s really not that long ago. It’s crazy. In this video, let’s briefly look at the long and difficult struggle for women to finally get to vote, particularly here in the United States.

It all started with the Iroquois in modern-day upstate New York. Also known as the Six Nations- they referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee. The Iroquois Confederacy formed in 1142, and when they did they didn’t say only men could vote. They let all adults vote on all major decisions. It wasn’t just voting. The Iroquois generally treated men and women equally.

After democracy made a comeback during The Enlightenment, you did see random circumstances where women were able to vote. For example, there was Lydia Taft, the first woman known to legally vote in colonial America, but it really was on behalf of her dead husband. Back then, being able to vote was almost always tied to owning property, and who owned the property? Men.

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