USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The earliest suffrage victories were in the west. The territory of Wyoming granted women the vote in 1869. Then when Wyoming became a state in 1890, the new government was the first state to allow women to vote.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wyoming Women’s Firsts. 1st State or Territory to Grant Universal Suffrage: In 1869, the first Wyoming Territorial Assembly passed the Women’s Suffrage Act granting women the right to vote and hold public office in the territory, putting them on equal footing with men.

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.