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...
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Colorado ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 15, 1919.
Colorado ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 15, 1919. This was the first time in American history that a state voters’ referendum would enfranchise women. Other states followed suit and enfranchised women through successful...
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...
Colorado gave women the right to vote on November 7, 1893.
Colorado was the second state to give women the right to vote.
When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment?
In 1920, the United States of America will celebrate the first 100 years of the Nineteenth Amendment. Want to celebrate the day your home state ratified the Nineteenth? Here it is. Congress approved the...
When did women in your state get the right to vote?
While we commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 as when American women won the right to vote, in fact, some groups of American women were voting 50 years before the Nineteenth...
