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Why might Wyoming have been called the most progressive state on the issue of women's suffrage?
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Wyoming might have been called the most progressive state on the issue of women's suffrage because, in 1869, Wyoming's Territorial Legislature approved a bill that said, "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." Governor John A. Campbell signed the bill into law.
That 1869 legislature also passed other laws that protected women's rights: that teachers would be paid the same, whether they were men or women; that married women had property rights separate from their husbands.
Eliza E. Swain cast the first female ballot in Wyoming in 1870. Two women, Esther Morris and Caroline Neil, became the first female justices of the peace. Women served on juries.
On July 10, 1890, Wyoming became a US state, with women's suffrage part of Wyoming's Constitution.
And, in 1924, Wyoming became the first state to elect a female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross.
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Who battle for suffrage in American history?
womens suffrage
What progressive belief led to WCTU support for womens suffrage laws?
woman were more moral then men, so they would vote to prohibit alcohol
Why was the east generally less progressive toward women suffrage then the mid west and west?
the east was controlled by a consortium of men opposed to womens rights.
Womens suffrage movement?
charistics of the women's suffrage movement
What does women suffrage mean?
women's suffrage is their right to vote the womens's suffrage movement was in 1920
Which political movement influenced Congress to give women the right to vote?
The movement is called Womens' Suffrage. Read more, below.
What did the womens suffrage lead to?
Women voting
What is womens suffrage?
Women Right To Vote
Which of these terms is associated with womens right to vote liberation equality integration or suffrage?
Suffrage A+
The movement to end womens suffrage would be trying to abolish womens?
that's right
What was the Seneca Falls Declaration of sentiments resolutions?
Womens suffrage ie womens rights
What was Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments Resolution?
Womens suffrage ie womens rights
