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Illinois grants the right to vote to women, the first state east of the Mississippi to do so. 1920: On August 26, a constitutional amendment is adopted when Tennessee ratifies it, granting full suffrage in all states. 1929: Puerto Rico's legislature grants women the right to vote, pushed by the U.S. Congress to do so. 1971
First came Idaho, in 1896. In 1910, Washington women voted for the first time. This was quickly followed in 1911 by California. In 1912, Arizona, Kansas, and the Alaska Territory all granted women suffrage. Illinois women were granted suffrage in 1913, and the next year Nevada and Montana followed.
The proposal for the referendum on women's suffrage, the first in the U.S., originated with state senator Sam Wood, leader of a rebel faction of the state Republican Party. Wood had moved to Kansas to oppose the extension of slavery into that state.
1887: Rhode Island becomes the first eastern state to vote on a women's suffrage referendum, but it does not pass. [3] 1888–1889: Wyoming had already granted women voting and suffrage since 1869–70; now they insist that they maintain suffrage if Wyoming joins the Union.
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
June 16, 1919 was ratification day for several states that were at the vanguard in the fight for women's suffrage. Kansas, Ohio, and New York called special sessions of their legislatures to vote in favor of the 19th Amendment. Kansas had held the first ever referendum for women's suffrage in 1867. Although the measure was defeated, women in ...
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th...
Congress relented, and Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote when it became the country’s 44th state in 1890. The West continued to be the country’s most progressive...
Wyoming was a trailblazer, approving women’s suffrage in 1869, a full 51 years before Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 2020, ensuring the right to vote...
When Wyoming entered the Union in 1890, it became the first state whose constitution accorded women the right to vote. Subsequently, vigorous campaigns were conducted to persuade state legislatures to submit to their voters amendments to state constitutions conferring full suffrage to women in state affairs. Efforts were also made to give women ...