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The 1776 New Jersey Constitution had vaguely stated that “all inhabitants” of the state could vote.
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a clarificaton of the Constitution by using the phrase “he or she” in referring to voters.
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in an effort to create uniformity, the Assembly passed the 1797 voting law, recognizing the right of women to vote across the state
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the Assembly passed a law limiting suffrage to free white males.
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She was one of a handful of early New Jersey suffragists who voted in the presidential election of 1920. Blackwell was active as a speaker and writer for women's rights, temperance, abolition of slavery, and other causes.
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the first statewide convention of suffragists in New Jersey. The meeting was held in Vineland
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The petition asked for the enfranchisement of women and reforms in married women's property rights
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The New Jersey Legislature passed a law giving the vote to women at school meetings. The Act was a very narrow one, for it only enfranchised women who lived in rural areas and small towns where school affairs were voted on by the public at school meetings. Large towns and cities had special school elections and at these women were not permitted to vote. The legislation was not sought by suffragists, who generally opposed such limited fragments of suffrage, but it did serve to give so
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After several years of political work by New Jersey suffragists, they convinced the state legislature to hold a referendum on a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution. The proposed amendment was defeated by the male voters. This chart documents, on a county by county basis, how the New Jersey electorate voted. Many suffragists abandoned their focus on state constitutional reform in preference of the federal woman suffrage amendment that would become the 19th Amendment.
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Distillers and retailers of liquor believed that woman suffrage would bring about prohibition, owing to the many efforts since the late 19th century, by such groups as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in New Jersey and elsewhere, to gain women the vote.
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The right to vote is extended to women
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NJ becomes the 29th state to radity the 19th Amendment.
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At the age of 95, Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) of Elizabeth was perhaps the oldest suffragist to go to the polls in New Jersey. Blackwell, a Unitarian minister, was a founder of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) in 1867 with her close friend and sister-in-law, Lucy Stone. She served as president of the NJWSA from 1891 to1892.
