Wyoming gained statehood, becoming the first state with equal voting rights for women, on July 10, 1890. Women in Wyoming Territory had already had voting rights since 1869.
In the Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton expanded the vision of the founding fathers, declaring that all men and...
The Nineteenth Amendment had become law in 1920.
Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi where women could vote for president on June 26, 1913 (but women still didn’t have equal voting rights with men).
The Nineteenth Amendment had become law in 1920.
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