Why do we vote on Tuesdays?

Nothing says how hard tradition is to break than the day Americans vote — Tuesday.
It’s inconvenient. Most people work on Tuesdays and polls are mostly open during business hours. They’re most crowded early in the morning before people leave for work and in the early evening after work and just before they close. It’s not exactly like polling places have retail hours; they’re more like extended banking hours.
So why does America do this? Like most things, the practi