Utah Women's Suffrage: Historical Background

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[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Historical Background"},{"insert":"\nIn the Utah Territory, women were "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"enfranchised"},{"insert":" in 1870, gaining the right to vote nearly two decades before statehood. Though Wyoming was the first territory to grant women’s "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"suffrage"},{"insert":" in 1869, Utah was the first to hold an election in which women actually voted.\nIn 1887, women in Utah lost their right to vote when the Edmunds-Tucker Act was passed. This act aimed to end polygamy within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but also revoked women's "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"suffrage"},{"insert":" in the territory.\n“This Act disincorporated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, seized church assets, barred polygamists from voting and from jury service, disenfranchised women, replaced sympathetic local (mostly Mormon) judges with federally appointed judges, and took other actions to compel an end to polygamy. Church leaders sued on First Amendment grounds, but the Supreme Court again ruled against them. Thousands were disenfranchised under this act and top LDS leaders went into hiding to avoid arrest.” - Adam R. Brown, Utah Politics and Government: American Democracy among a Unique Electorate\nThis right was restored with the ratification of Utah’s state constitution, which declared, “The right of citizens of the State of Utah to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.” - Utah Constitution, Article IV\n\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Important Figures in the History of Utah Suffrage"},{"insert":"\nSeraph Young: the first woman in the United States to vote under a women’s equal suffrage law.\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/bios/seraph-young/","underline":true},"insert":"https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/bios/seraph-young/"},{"insert":" \nMartha Hughes Cannon: the first female state senator in the United States. She was also the first woman in Salt Lake City to register to vote. When she ran for state senate, she ran against her husband and beat him. \n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/bios/marthahughescannon/","underline":true},"insert":"https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/bios/marthahughescannon/"},{"insert":"\nB.H. Roberts: Delegate in the Utah Constitutional Convention. Opposed women’s suffrage vehemently. p. 939 \n“Utah voters elected LDS leader B.H. Roberts to the U.S. House in 1898. Fearing that the LDS church would use Roberts to maintain political influence, the House refused to seat him, citing his polygamous past as a pretext.” -Adam R. Brown, Utah Politics and Government: American Democracy among a Unique Electorate \n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.betterdays2020.com/blog/2018/10/18/contention-at-the-convention","underline":true},"insert":"https://www.betterdays2020.com/blog/2018/10/18/contention-at-the-convention"},{"insert":"\nHeber M. Wells: Delegate in the Utah Constitutional Convention. Argued in favor of women’s suffrage. p. 977\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Original Minutes of the Proceedings and Debates of the Utah State Constitutional Convention"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://le.utah.gov/documents/conconv/utconstconv.htm","underline":true},"insert":"https://le.utah.gov/documents/conconv/utconstconv.htm"},{"insert":"\n\n"}]

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Women in Utah gained the right to vote in 1870, before it became a state. Although Wyoming passed a women’s suffrage law first, Utah held an election first and was the first place in the U.S. where women voted. In 1887, a federal law took away women’s right to vote while trying to end polygamy. Then, Utah leaders restored women’s rights to vote in the 1895 state constitution.

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Introductory Lessons

Preamble

Negotiation

Supremacy Clause

Three Fifths Clause

Local and State Declarations of Independence

First Amendment

No Establishment Clause

Search and Seizure Clause

Grand Jury Clause

Right to Speedy Trial Clause

Right to Jury Trial in Civil Cases Clause

Utah State Constitutional Convention

Functions of State Government

Declaration of Independence

Constitutionalism

Federalism (Compound Republic)

Necessary and Proper Clause

Fugitive Slave Clause

Social Contract Theory

Free Exercise Clause

Second Amendment

Warrant Clause

Double Jeopardy Clause

Right to Public Trial Clause

Enumerated Rights Stated in the Utah Constitution

U.S. Federal Constitutional Convention 1787

Great Compromise

Slave Importation Clause

Consent of the Governed

Freedom of Speech Clause

Third Amendment

Self-incrimination Clause

Right to Trial by Jury Clause

Similarities between the U.S. and Utah Constitutions

U.S. Bill of Rights

Congressional Power

Individual Rights

Freedom of the Press Clause

Fourth Amendment

Due Process Clause

Right to Counsel Clause

Political Challenges to Utah Statehood

U.S. State Constitutions

Electoral College

Freedom of Assembly Clause

Fifth Amendment

Takings Clause

Utah Women's Suffrage

Executive Power

Right to Petition Clause

Sixth Amendment

Civil Dialogue in the Utah Suffrage Debates

Congressional and Executive War Powers

Seventh Amendment

Separation of Powers

Eighth Amendment

Checks and Balances

Ninth Amendment

Limited Government

Tenth Amendment

Slavery Compromises

Utah Women's Suffrage: Historical Background

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