USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state and the first state to have full voting rights for women.

Detailed explanation-2: -The states across the finish line on January 6, 1920 had been wrestling with women’s right to vote for decades. Rhode Island, the first with a statewide suffrage organization, voted nearly unanimously to ratify the 19th Amendment.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-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 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which later became the Republic of Finland, was the first country in the world to give all women and all men both the right to vote and the right to run for office.