USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wyoming passed the first woman suffrage law on December 10, 1869, and women voted for the first time in 1870. The word suffrage comes from the Latin word suffragium, meaning the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Wyoming, some men were also motivated by sheer loneliness–in 1869, the territory had over 6, 000 adult males and only 1, 000 females, and area men hoped women would be more likely to settle in the rugged and isolated country if they were granted the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-3: -Votes for Women in Wyoming Territory In the fall of 1869, lawmakers in Wyoming’s first territorial legislature passed a bill allowing women the right to vote. The governor signed the bill into law Dec. 10, 1869, making the territory the first government in the world to grant full voting rights to women.

Detailed explanation-4: -A legislature made entirely of men passed the woman’s suffrage bill in 1869 entitled “An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the Right of Suffrage, and to Hold Office.” The territory retained its woman suffrage law even when that law could have jeopardized the Wyoming Territory’s application for statehood.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1870, a full 50 years before the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States, Louisa Swain cast a historic ballot for the general election in Laramie, Wyoming.