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Pennsylvania gave women the right to vote in 1920, when they signed the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Seven other states had signed the Amendment by then.
It gave women the right to vote.
There were many reasons with no one specific explanation for women getting the right to vote in Wyoming and other western states. Wyoming and other western states needed more people. By giving women the right to vote, Wyoming hoped to attract women from the eastern states. Granting women the right to vote also brought publicity to Wyoming. Politics was also a part. African American men were also being given the right to vote at the same time and there were concerns about counteracting their votes. Plus, people in Wyoming believed that women should be given the right to vote and that voting (suffrage) is a basic right of citizenship.
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The United States of America
Pennsylvania gave women the right to vote in 1920, when they signed the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Seven other states had signed the Amendment by then.
Native Americans were not originally considered citizens of this country. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 declared all non-citizen Indians born within the United States to be citizens, giving them the right to vote. yet even after the Indian Citizenship Act, some native Americans weren't allowed to vote because the right to vote was governed by state law. Until 1948 some states still barred natives from voting.
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to give African Americans the right to vote
It gave women the right to vote.
Women demanded the right to vote.
Women's right to vote expanding from Western States to Eastern States
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