Rachel Wilson

So in the UK, most men couldn't vote until about 10 years before women got the vote in the UK.

There was all kinds of restrictions on voting in the United States for men.

You may have to pay a poll tax.

You might have to take a test test.

Like a literacy test or a political literacy test.

There might be a religious requirement of some kind.

There might be a racial requirement of some kind.

There could be all different kinds of restrictions on men voting.

You might have to be a property owner.

You might have to be a certain age.

So there was a lot of men.

It wasn't like all men could always vote.

And no women could ever vote.

And at the time of trying to pass suffrage, there were already a few states in the West that had granted women's suffrage like Utah and Wyoming.

And Utah is a fun case because it was mostly settled by Mormons at the time.

And they were mostly polygamists.

And there was this big fight between the feds and the state of Utah because the feds did not.

They were like, this polygamy thing is getting really popular out there and it's going to cause us some problems.

And they want to give women the right to vote.

And the Mormons thought if we give women the right to vote, we can keep polygamy because they're going to vote for it because it's beneficial to them in whatever ways that the LDS church thought it was.