California
California
Women can vote in all 50 states, but the ability to vote started on a state by state basis.
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.
They were; Suffragists tried to convince state legislature to grant women the right to vote. Women sat in on court cases and tested the 14th Amendment, saying if men are citizens who can vote and women are citizens, why can't women vote?. Lastly, Women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote (19th Amendment).
Washington granted women the right to vote in 1883, though it was lost in 1888. It was regained in 1910, making Washington the fifth state to grant women the right to vote.
1920
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.
First, they tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. Second, women pursued court cases to test the 14th Amendment, which declared that states denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation. Third, women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the vote.
1920
The suffragettes
It was more of an individual state, which was Wyoming.