What area of the United States gave the most support for women's suffrage before amendment?
1 Answer
May 17, 2017
The West
Explanation:
The West served as a sort of laboratory for women suffrage, Wyoming gave woment the right to vote in 1869.
"The 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women, was approved by Congress in 1920. It was over fifty years previously, however, that Wyoming had entered the Union as the first state to grant women full voting rights. The next eight states to grant full suffrage to women were also Western states: Colorado (1893); Utah and Idaho (1896); Washington (1910); California (1911); and Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona (1912). "
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