Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote on Dec. 10, 1869. This newspaper cover shows Wyoming women voting in 1888. At that time, Wyoming women were the only American...
South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.
North Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 1, 1919.
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...
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 was the second state to give women the right to vote.
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...
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
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...
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