Why Do Americans Vote on Tuesdays?

In most places, elections are held on Sundays.
Voters in the U.S. may head to the polls on Tuesdays, but the rest of the world prefers to save its votes for Sunday. Interestingly, countries in which English is the primary language tend to be the exception to this rule; in Canada, citizens vote on Mondays, while British citizens vote on Thursdays, and Australians and New Zealanders on Saturdays. The American vote wasn’t always limited to Tuesdays by law; instead, it’s a holdover from the 19th century, when farmers often had to travel long distances to their polling stations and needed enough time to make it back home for market day on Wednesday.