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In 1884, a women's suffrage bill, allowing women to vote for school-related issues is passed. In 1886, voters approve the school-related suffrage bill in a referendum . The first year women vote, 1887, there are challenges to the law that go on until Wisconsin women are allowed to vote again for school issues in 1902 using separate ballots.
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Directory, 1885. The Impartial Suffrage Convention was held in Janesville during October 9 and 10, 1867. [18] It was the first time that activists for the women's vote met statewide and was organized by a group of men and women from different parts of the state. [18]
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848 ...
On August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. The amendment came after more than 70 years of struggle for women suffragists. Tennessee ...
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913
A “yes” vote on the first question would add to the Wisconsin Constitution an amendment prohibiting the Legislature from delegating its power to appropriate money while a “no” vote would ...
In Atlanta, women won the right to vote in municipal elections in 1919. [352] In July 1919, the Georgia Legislature considered the Nineteenth Amendment. [353] On July 24, Georgia became the first state to reject the amendment. [354] [355] Even after the Nineteenth Amendment became the law of the land, Georgia did not allow women to vote right ...