WI Women voting stayed legal in New Jersey

As you might or not also know unmarried white women who owned property could vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807. Because of iirc the law stating that "people" could vote and not "men". Anyway the question is what if the law stayed that way? What would be the consequences? How long until women's rights/suffrage is enhanced in New Jersey and how long until it spreads into other states?
 
As you might or not also know unmarried white women who owned property could vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807. Because of iirc the law stating that "people" could vote and not "men". Anyway the question is what if the law stayed that way? What would be the consequences? How long until women's rights/suffrage is enhanced in New Jersey and how long until it spreads into other states?
Ummm interesting.... and specially the wording, people...ummm might be fun when the north-south struggles starts
 
was there many slaves in maryland in 1807? if some govrener enfroced that there might not be in slavery with ti becoming a free state
 
was there many slaves in maryland in 1807? if some govrener enfroced that there might not be in slavery with ti becoming a free state

Maryland? The question was about New Jersey, a state that had legally abolished slavery in 1804 (though in practice didn't abandon it completely until the Thirteenth amendment). Plus slaves were legally considered property, not people. In the eyes of the slaveowners (and Federal law at the time) it would be like giving voting rights to your chair.
 
IIRC New Jersey revoked Women's franchise in the Jacksonian era due to perceptions of vote-buying and populism, and in the few cycles right before they did much larger numbers of women voted than had at first. If women keep the franchise, you could see NJ develop a much more populist political culture generally, or perhaps have some back and forth struggles over how to tighten or loosen the qualifications. If they keep the vote a bit longer, the start of national women's rights groups and organized women's political consciousness could see some of the early feminists and their abolitionist allies moving to New Jersey to take advantage of the vote. If that occurred in numbers, you'd probably see women's suffrage in NJ solidified, probably at least one 7 sisters type college in NJ, and an NJ that is a hotbed of abolitionism (otl it was lukewarm) in the run up to war. However NJ's politics work out, if it allows women the vote through the civil war then there's a decent chance of it spreading to other states during reconstruction. Kansas and New York, at least, had fairly close state-level contests on extending the franchise that narrowly lost; a functioning example to point to could well have tipped the balance. The 14th and 15th amendments would likely also be worded differently, though how would depend on the flocks of butterflies.
 
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