The right to vote "Women's Suffrage".
In 1893 New Zealand was the first self-governing nation in the world where all adult women, including Maori, won the right to vote in national elections
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Actually, because the Cook Islands (a New Zealand dependancy) held an election earlier than New Zealand, they were the first nation in which aldult women actually voted.
Australia gave the vote to all white women in 1902 (aboriginal women had to wait until 1960!) and the US gave all women nationally the right to vote in 1920.
There are still many countries in which women do not have the right to vote.
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The right to vote "Women's Suffrage".
In 1893 New Zealand was the first self-governing nation in the world where all adult women, including Maori, won the right to vote in national elections
.
Actually, because the Cook Islands (a New Zealand dependancy) held an election earlier than New Zealand, they were the first nation in which aldult women actually voted.
Australia gave the vote to all white women in 1902 (aboriginal women had to wait until 1960!) and the US gave all women nationally the right to vote in 1920.
There are still many countries in which women do not have the right to vote.
There was no women's rights movement in the 1800's. It wasn't until 1920 that women had the right to vote. Even then they didn't have to right to attend college, own property, or have their own credit or bank account.
Range rights are the rights to water on the Plains. Small ranchers in the 1800s bought the rights from the larger ranchers. Hope this helps!
The transcendentalist movement was a philosophical awakening in the early 1800s in the United States. It stressed the idea that people have an intuitive moral knowledge of what is and isn't right.
Because the immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s were largely from Eastern and Southern Europe and drank alcohol.
In the early 1900s, the women's suffrage movement helped establish congressional support for the Nineteenth Amendment.
The struggle for India's freedom is believed to have started in the early 1800s. The Indian independence movement officially started in 1857.Ê