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. Women in the United States had fought for suffrage since the time of Andrew Jackson’s presidency in the 1820s.

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: -1890. The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. As the movement’s mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.