South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.
South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.
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North Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 1, 1919.
North Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 1, 1919.
Washington Territory gave women the right to vote on Nov. 23, 1883.
Washington territory was the third territory to enfranchise women, before any state had done so, on November 23, 1883. Unfortunately, the courts invalidated Washington’s suffrage law in 1887. The Washington Territorial Legislature quickly passed...
Washington state gave women the right to vote on November 8, 1910.
Gaining the right to vote was tricky for Washington women. While Washington was still a territory, its territorial legislature granted women the right to vote twice, only to have its suffrage laws struck down...
Colorado gave women the right to vote on November 7, 1893.
Colorado was the second state to give women the right to vote.
New York gave women the right to vote on November 6, 1917.
Many of the earliest prominent suffragists were New Yorkers: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, to name a few. However their efforts were most often rewarded...
Michigan, Oklahoma & South Dakota gave women the right to vote on November 5, 1918.
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Montana and Nevada gave women the right to vote on November 3, 1914.
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Idaho gave women the right to vote on November 3, 1896.
Idaho was the fourth state to enfranchise women, after its neighbors, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, and it would be the last to do so for over a decade. To learn when American women across...
California ratified the 19th Amendment on Nov. 1, 1919.
California women had already been voting since 1911. To learn about when other states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment? To learn when American women across the...
