Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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Yeah it's gonna be at 'Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England Part CCCLXVII' in a few years.
By which point it will be more detailed than OTL, gain sentience and take over our timeline entirely.
Ok, now I need to adjust my awesomeness detector's display from logarithmic to log^2. Peak awesome remains as elusive as ever.
It's kind of true - you needed one in order to vote...
Did landowning women ever have the right to vote in NE?
In Britain all property/landowners above a certain income level had the vote until women were specifically removed by the the 1832 Reform Act and 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Admittedly not many women were applicable beforehand but it was there.
Iirc a lot of the colonies retained the property qualification which then enabled some U States to keep equal gender voting rights as the franchise extended.
*30% chance that Kanan gains Stressed*
While he didn't get to frighten ol' Virginny till she trembled through and through, his truth goes marching on!
In New England, as a country, no. Women who owned land were able to vote in the provincial elections were able to in some cases until votes for women were indeed taken away in 1832 and 1835 by acts of the British Parliament, which applied to the American colonies (New England and Canada). Responsible Government came around the turn of the century for some places, so landholding women enjoyed the vote for at least a couple elections.
That's probably the last one for today
Maybe
On that note, 10% of New England's federal elections are now done!
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