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Which two statements are true about women's rights in the 1800s?

Women had limited voting rights.



Women had access to basic education.



Women couldn’t serve on juries.



Women could sign certain legal documents.



Married women could keep their wages.

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The two statements that are true about women's rights in the 1800s are:

-Women had limited voting rights.

The first women's rights convention in the United States took place in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. While certain states passed laws giving women the right to vote after 1893, women did not officially obtain the right to vote in the United States, free of restrictions and nationally, until 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

-Women couldn’t serve on juries.

In the United States, several states have granted women the right to attend juries since 1870. While women technically served juries after earning the right to vote, individual states used the vague words of the Sixth Amendment, that granted a criminal the right to a jury of their peers, to discourage women from attending juries and even to excuse them from service upon request.

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