USA HISTORY

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Women first received equal suffrage in the
A
South.
B
East.
C
West.
D
North.
Explanation: 

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: -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: -Approved by the Senate on June 4, 1919, and ratified in August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment marked one stage in women’s long fight for political equality. This timeline features key moments on the Senate’s long road to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-5: -New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893.

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