Suffrage
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The right to vote has come a long way in America today. It wasn't always as easy as turning eighteen and registering to vote.
Voting began in 1430. It was very restricted, only men who owed land and made more than forty shillings were eligible to vote. At that time you couldn't be an alien, servant, non-Anglican, or a women. The restrictions even got pickier than that; a voter also had to meet religious, racial, and residential requirements. Women weren't allowed to vote because they weren't able to reason there way through the issues as a man did. Claiming it was because of incapacity for sound reasoning. As time went on the restrictions were slowly lifted one by one. In 1776, New Jersey granted the right to vote for inhabitants worth fifty pounds who resided in a voting place for one year...