Sentence examples for granted suffrage from inspiring English sources

Women were granted suffrage in 1929.

Women, for the first time in French history, were granted suffrage.

In 1776 New Jersey adopted its first constitution, which granted suffrage to women (although the legislature revoked this right in 1807).

In the South, where black men had been granted suffrage in 1870, by the Fifteenth Amendment, it was fear of the black Republican majority that led many former Confederate states to adopt the reform in the first place.

In many cases, the shifting border also turned Mexican citizens into American ones: an early territorial law granted suffrage, with some conditions, to "every white male citizen of the United States," and to "every white male citizen of Mexico," provided he had elected to switch his loyalty.

In addition to those mentioned above, other far-reaching amendments include the Sixteenth (1913), which allowed Congress to impose an income tax; the Seventeenth (1913), which provided for direct election of senators; the Nineteenth (1920), which mandated woman suffrage; and the Twenty-sixth (1971), which granted suffrage to citizens 18 years of age and older.

When the statehood bills for Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona came before Congress in 1903, she prepared amendments granting suffrage to women in the proposed new states.

In 1955, the state's voters approved a constitutional amendment granting suffrage to eighteen-year-olds over Wetherby's objections.

The 15th Amendment passed in 1870 granting suffrage to males regardless of "race" on the federal and state levels.

When Lincoln stated that he was in favor of granting suffrage to the former slaves, Booth declared that it would be the last speech Lincoln would ever make.

The new constitution required the state to grant suffrage to the emancipated slaves, now called Freedmen; it reapportioned the legislative districts to reflect the new status of freedmen as citizens, counting them as full members of the population.