
250 percent of the inhabitants in some localities seemed to have voted. Although women
Americans, and aliens.
and those of African Americans, who supported the Republicans. Certainly the mood of
the country had changed from the revolutionary fervor of 1776. Anxiety was growing
citizens were removed throughout the country.
The Women’s Rights Movement in the
Early-to Mid-19th Century
In subsequent years, New Jersey women’s activism took new forms. Women became
the bondage of slavery with the subordinate status of women. During this period, the
temperance movement also became a force in the state, partly in response to the growing
numbers of Irish and German Catholic immigrants who brought a saloon culture to
New Jersey. Men organized a state temperance society in 1834, while women began to
had on women and children, tracing a connection to poverty and domestic violence.
Meanwhile New Jersey’s
new constitution of 1844
explicitly excluded women
and African Americans
with “paupers, idiots,
insane persons, and
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