USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement best describes the path to women’s suffrage in the United States? Some states granted women the right to vote first, and then a constitutional amendment gave all women the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women of the West were the first in the United States to enjoy full voting rights. As new territories and states organized, many considered, and most granted, women the right to vote. Decades before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, western women voted and served in public office.

Detailed explanation-3: -The woman’s suffrage movement is important because it resulted in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -While American women had been fighting for the right to vote for decades prior to the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, it was not until World War I that their cause for political independence regained momentum, says Stanford legal scholar Pamela S.