1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
KATRIN_1 [288]
3 years ago
15

In the 1800s America women could not vote because

History
2 answers:
stiv31 [10]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Explanation: “It would mean a degeneration and a degradation of human fiber which would turn back the hands of time a thousand years,” Sedgwick said in 1914. “Hence it will probably never come, for mankind will not lightly abandon at the call of a few fanatics the hard-earned achievements of the ages.”

A mere five years after The New York Times published Sedgwick’s warning, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, which legally granted American women the right to vote. Civilization didn’t come crashing down. But at the turn of the 20th century, many people listened to Sedgwick, a well-known professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They believed him when he said—as other academics, doctors, and scientists did—that women shouldn’t vote because they were, quite literally, not made for it. According to the leading theory, mental exertion could jeopardize reproductive health. And if the science of the day asserted that women could become infertile if they did too much thinking, no man would want to send his daughter, sister, or wife to college or the office—and certainly not to the ballot box.

faust18 [17]3 years ago
4 0

The ability for individuals in American society to vote in elections increased for several different groups. This includes the ability of non land holding white citizens and African-American citizens who gained the right to vote with the 15th amendment. However, women were not allowed to vote based on their state constitutions. This all changed in 1920 when the 19th amendment to the US Constitution was passed. This law made it so that a person cannot be stopped from voting based on their gender.

You might be interested in
Which of the following was not a contributor to the federalist papers?
Marat540 [252]
B. Patrick Henry was an anti-federalist 
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which object forms when a supergiant explodes?
Juli2301 [7.4K]

Answer:

black holes

Explanation:

3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
What type of house needed few building resources other than trees and a axe
Maru [420]

Answer:

log cabin

Explanation:

7 0
3 years ago
Which of the following did the Interstate Commerce Act ban in 1887?
loris [4]

Answer:

its b or c

Explanation:

6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
How did journalism get its start in America?
arlik [135]
It started because people wanted to know firsthand what was happening with politics and controversial topics.
8 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Work of building such things as roads, schools, and
    8·1 answer
  • how did you know What evidence does McCarthy provide to support his claims of Communists in the State Department?
    11·1 answer
  • Athens kept any one person from gaining to much power by ostracizing citizens who gained too much power all choices are correct
    7·1 answer
  • Who ruled the Qing dynasty?
    10·1 answer
  • CAN SOMEONE PLZ HELP ME!!!!! D:
    12·1 answer
  • Name the prime minister of France who was part of the popular front party?
    10·1 answer
  • Which of the followinng countries border india
    15·2 answers
  • How did human systems restructure themselves after catastrophe? claim
    5·1 answer
  • Before the Han dynasty, Confucius’s ideas were widely accepted among the Chinese.
    7·2 answers
  • А The Fourth Amendment, 1791
    10·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!