Fish in a barrel - Glen Beck (remember him?) and his historian discuss blacks and women

[underpants]

Beck: Founders' Fridays Crash Course

America's history is being distorted, and our kids aren't being taught the truth. This is just one of the things that we learned on this program and one of the things this show has tried to do from the beginning is set the record straight.




BECK: Let me ask the audience, when did women get the right to vote? 1920? Yes, 1920. What would you say if I told you not true, women could vote in the 1700s? Would anybody believe me?

BARTON: In New Jersey, they wrote in the Constitution the right for women to vote. So, women started voting in New Jersey in 1776. And that was a right that the Founding Fathers put into the documents, and women had voted in colonial America before that as well. Pennsylvania back in the French and Indian war, et cetera, but they put it in the Constitution.

We declared independence in 1776 so women voting was under English rule.

There WAS an unpayable poll tax
New Jersey, on confederation of the United States following the Revolutionary War, placed only one restriction on the general suffrage—the possession of at least £50 (about $7,800 adjusted for inflation) in cash or property.<3><4> In 1790, the law was revised to include women specifically, and in 1797 the election laws referred to a voter as "he or she".<19> Female voters became so objectionable to professional politicians, that in 1807 the law was revised to exclude them. Later, the 1844 constitution banned women voting, the 1947 one then allowed it—but, by 1947, all state constitutional provisions that barred women from voting had been rendered ineffective by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_in_the_United_States#New_Jersey


BECK:How about the painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware? Bunch of white guys, right? No.

Look here. African-American helping row the boat across. You know what his name was? Prince Whipple. He fought alongside Washington during the revolution.

Prince Whipple (1750-1796) was an African American slave who accompanied his owner, General William Whipple of the New Hampshire militia, during the American Revolutionary War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Whipple


BECK: When we have the first speaker of the House? <-- I just included that because it is funny

[ohbill]

1. Nobody could vote for a President back then.

At least not until 1804. Presidents were appointed until then.