In 1869 Wyoming's territorial legislature granted women the right to vote. When Wyoming became a state in 1890, the state constitution gave women the right to vote.
The territory of Wyoming was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869, prior to the 19th Amendment. It became a state in 1890.
In 1869 Wyoming's territorial legislature granted women the right to vote. When Wyoming became a state in 1890, the state constitution gave women the right to vote.
The state of Wyoming granted women voting rights in 1890. Several other states, such as Oregon and Colorado, had granted voting rights to women before the 19th Amendment.
In 1869 Wyoming's territorial legislature granted women the right to vote. When Wyoming became a state in 1890, the state constitution gave women the right to vote.
The territory of Wyoming was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869, prior to the 19th Amendment. It became a state in 1890.
Women in Wyoming gained the right to vote on December 10, 1869, when Wyoming's Territorial Legislature approved a revolutionary measure stating: "That every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this Territory, may at every election to be holden under the law thereof, cast her 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 is a basic right of citizenship.
Wyoming was the state to allow women to vote in1869.
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Technically it was New Jersey, but that right was taken away from New Jersey women in 1807. Wyoming became the first place to let women vote where that right was never taken away. The story is complicated ,so see the details below.New Jersey granted women the vote under the state constitution of 1776, New Jersey women lost the vote in 1807The territory of Wyoming passed their suffrage law on December 10, 1869,. This became the first time the right to vote for women was protected by law and was never taken away. Wyoming became a state in 1890, and the suffrage law just carried over into its state constitution. Although suffrage was granted to the women of Wyoming first, Utah was the first place where women were allowed to vote under the law .The territorial legislature of the Utah Territory gave women the right to vote on February 12, 1870 . The first woman voted on February 14, 1870, after both Wyoming and Utah had granted suffrage to women, but before Wyoming had held a election. Thus Utah was the first place where a women voted, and her right to vote was protected and allowed by law. However the United States Congress disenfranchised Utah women, and took away their voting rights, with the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887. It was not until Utah was granted statehood in 1896 that women were again allowed to vote.In 1893 the state of Colorado adopted an amendment granting women the right to vote.
Although New Jersey allowed some women to vote between 1790 and 1807 (those with property), Wyoming was the first state to grant the general right to vote, through an act of the territorial legislature in 1869 that carried into statehood in 1890. The state of Colorado approved women's right to vote in 1893.