RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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8388 women
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16 women
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63 women
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921 women
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first state to grant women the right to vote had been Wyoming, in 1869, followed by Utah in 1870, Colorado in 1893, Idaho in 1896, Washington in 1910, California in 1911, Oregon and Arizona in 1912, Montana in 1914, North Dakota, New York, and Rhode Island in 1917, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Michigan in 1918.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1918 the Representation of the People Act granted some women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 gave men and women equal voting rights for the first time.
Detailed explanation-3: -The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.